From the category archives:
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Very few people like talking about debt. Those who do are either 1. personal finance bloggers or 2. weirdos [...]
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I stepped on the scale this weekend, and the results were not pretty. 199.8 lbs.
Yikes. Now, I don’t consider myself “fat” but I’ve gained 15 lbs since last summer, and I’m not happy about it.
I was thinking about my food spending habits lately, and I know there is some correlation between my weight gain and [...]
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Being engaged is a strange place in life. You’re no longer just “dating” and yet, you’re not yet married.
It’s a heck of a lot of waiting.
Waiting to move (more on this).
Waiting to live together (til after we are hitched).
Waiting for checks to come so I can pay off more debt (I want to pay off [...]
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With the recent passing of my fiancee’s mother…and her subsequent life insurance policy squabble (we are not involved in it thankfully), I’ve been thinking….
do I need to buy life insurance?
With a wife now in the picture, and the 105K or so I still owe my mother, I think it’s worth looking into to. If something [...]
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My deposits and payments are all lined, up for the first week of February. So here’s my status as of February 5 (I’ve done the bills through that date).
Credit Card 1: $0
Credit Card 2: $0
Credit Card 3:$7216.44 (we cut the balance almost in half this month, so I’ll call and see if we can get [...]
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This is another post in my series about busting debt, in partnership with Lending Club. I wrote about the 9 rules to follow to get out of debt recently.
I’ve been having a think lately about why we purchase things. And if *things* are usually the reason so many millions of us are stuck in [...]
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I own a small business which requires computers, and we have some personal computers at home, so software is a substantial investment around our house. Forget the actual machines themselves—don’t scratch those disks people, a computer can be easily replaced but oh, the software!
I’ve bootstrapped my little business along with the version of Office [...]
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Side note: my fiancee and I will be selling her car once we get married. I drive a 2006 Scion xB with 70K/miles on it.
I had a funny conversation with my brother today. My younger brother doesn’t have a car, he rides his bike and the bus to his work.
But lately he’s been rolling in [...]
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A few lessons in life I’ve learned.
1.Be prepared.
2.Never ask a question you don’t want the answer to.
3.Never, ever pray for patience.
You may have heard the scripture–”ask and you shall receive.” The thing about patience, is there’s no comfortable way to learn it. Praying for patience is the sort of thing that will [...]
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I’m having trouble staying focused and motivated on my goal this year, which btw, isn’t to be debt free, but to have a positive net worth.
I’m getting complacent. A little lazy. Coffee doesn’t even seem to be helping much lately.
The problem is a general lack of pain in my life right now. I’ve gotten comfortable. [...]
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