Yikes. As that's close to half my annual income, even if I cut my expenses to the bone, get rid of cable, freeze through the winters, and eat the cheapest possible diet, it would take me at least three years to get it paid off. The only way I could do it without incurring debt is if the house is sold, and the real estate market is still totally sucky and likely to remain so for the next couple of years, at the least. Plus, once the house is sold I'm looking at paying rent (and dealing with landlords and all their rules) for the rest of my life.
Even should I go the pre-modern route and wait for the teeth to rot, and then get them yanked out (and don't get dentures to replace them), my budget will eventually feel a strain. Extractions aren't all that cheap anymore.
So, calculating my income and all my expenses, they now sum up to screwed. I knew my teeth would eventually bite me in the arse!
