I need advice on where to start with my money. I just got divorced, I'm on housing and food stamps since I have yet to do my taxes (just got back into dancing), read The Automatic Millionare and started saving $500/month this month ($250 twice a month automatically into a savings), and I want to invest and buy a home as soon as possible.
My ideas were:
1. Get off housing and foodstamps
2. Find roommate so I don't have so much rent and can save more quickly
3. Start my taxes (having trouble here)
4. Get my savings up to 6 months stability in case of job loss or emergency
5. Start retirement fund
6. Buy house (clueless!)
All I have right now is $2000. I have my student loan $3000, and my breast loan $2000 left to pay. Besides those, I have only the basic monthly expenses. I live pretty simply but I do have a daughter and I pay for her private school and other activities. My monthly income will average around $3000.
I just get so confused by all the millions of things I have to learn to accomplish this stuff! I have to pay someone to do the tax stuff, so there goes some money, need to take classes to learn how to invest and how to buy a home, and I think I'm nuts, so I should probably get a psychologist (or whatever). How do people live!!!!! Ok, so where would you guys start and how do I do it? I already read most all the tax threads and am re-reading them today. I want to do them myself, so any extra info on what classes I should take would be excellent. Thanks everybody!!



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