Pardon my American term of soccer those of you who call it football. I blame my parents, they called it that because football was an awkward game with very large men attempting to damage one another while not getting damaged themselves. Its like politics only with more distinguishable words that the common man feels comfortable with. You see, my wife wants to sign up the girls for soccer [read: football/futball]. I want to sign them up, too. Just not for a combined total of $270.00. I’m going to declare that watching them play it is fun (we went to a free day where they could practice with a coach so as to hook us into the program). Its greater fun than watching the politicians for sure.

Our getting out of debt budget simply doesn’t have a $270.00 gap in it. Maybe if we saved up for a few months we’d have enough, but that would be money we’d be taking out of debt deduction instead of money going into the debt reduction process. In short we’d be paying our way out of debt for several months longer (or to put it in my wife’s terms: delaying our cash-only anniversary trip). In my mind its not worth it. I’m more than willing to do it once the debt is gone, but at present putting the debt as a lower priority feels like a violation of all that is mostly good (except for the politicians who are mostly not good).

So we’re going to have to discuss this because while we could eek it out of the zero budget, its not my first choice.  We love our girls, we love to see them get exercise and fun, we love to see them get the opportunity to dominate spheres and cause mild pain and suffering in (non-competitive youth) soccer, but this may just have to wait for one more year to go by.  We think next year we may just have all or most of our debt paid off.  Maybe we can buy a soccer ball and kick it in the backyard.  I know it isn’t the same, but neither is American Soccer and Football.  I blame the politicians.