u/Longjumping_Duty_400

Does anybody have any advice for parking at LAX when traveling with kids? I will be traveling with my 1 1/2 year-old and 4 1/2 year-old. We will have one car seat and a few bags (2 adults).

Looking at parking prices parking at LAX seems to be the most economical. It looks like it should only be about $100 to park in the economy lot and take a shuttle but for $100 more we could park in the terminal and walk.

Does anyone have any experience with this or advice? TYIA!

I am posting this here to give myself motivation to keep going but also to inspire others to just buckle down and do it.

I want to start by saying I am very privileged that I have the income to have made this much progress this fast and that most of my debt came from YEARS of bad spending and money management habits.

With that said this has still been hard and taken a lot of discipline and hard work. I know it will be worth it in the long run. I no longer have crippling anxiety over my finances. I still have a long way to go but I feel good about the path I’m on.

Achieved in 9 months:
Enrolled in financial relief plans, cut interest by 20% (if you have high interest debt please push for financial relief plans with your CC companies, there’s no way I would have paid down as much as I have if I was still paying $700+ in interest alone every month)

Paid down 1/3 of starting debt ($20K- please no judgment)

Raised credit score 40-60pts across all credit reports

Brought savings back to up where it was before I took $ out to pay down debt

Habits Changed:

Meticulously track spending and budget in a spreadsheet several times a week I am logging my bank balances, expenses, and debts

I now think about my monthly projected ending bank balance as the money I have, not the money that’s actually in my account

I no longer pay for things with a credit card if I don’t know how I am going to pay for them

I don’t go to the grocery store without a list or a budget in mind

I don’t wait until my gas tank is empty to fill up because I don’t have the money to get gas (it’s already in the budget)

I don’t get food delivery (pick up take out occasionally)

I don’t shop on Amazon

If I overspend in one category I balance my budget and spend less in another category within the month. I’m not rolling over budget from month to month

I don’t pay rent late

I don’t act like I’m not poor

I’m not generous just because

I don’t spend extra money I get, it goes to debt or savings (I recently got some birthday money, I paid all my credit cards and then put the extra in savings)

Probably more things I’m forgetting