When I last wrote about our two- or three-year plan to pay off all credit card debt, we were struggling up Mount Savings, frequently buffeted by the winds of unpredictable expenses.

At that time, the goal was a cushion of $5,000 in savings — a base camp, if you will, from which to mount a demolition job on K2: $17,500. It seemed impossible, and in the mad scramble it was hard to see the progress we were making.

But I’m happy to report that somehow, all of this effort seems to be working.

Mount Savings

Total projected savings for year-end 2009 is: $31,085.

K2

We plan to send the credit cards $10,000 in the new year.

Hear the explosion. Feel the quake and shudder. Revel in the debris raining down as the mountain staggers.

Notice how I have not put the numbers in boldface.

As they say, man plans, God laughs. I knock my pressed wood desk. From, for now, the safety of a higher base camp.

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