B, Susan

Susan B. is a grateful, recovering compulsive debtor and spender. She first came into Debtors Anonymous in 1999 and paid off over $22,000 of unsecured debt. Thinking she had the answer, she left the program.

After a six year relapse, Susan finally hit bottom. When she came out of the fog in the spring of 2009, she realized that she'd now accrued over $34,000 in credit card debt, and couldn't afford to pay for her son to begin college in the fall.

On April 25, 2009, she cut up her credit cards, recommitted herself to Debtors Anonymous and working her recovery program, and began using...