From the category archives:
I’ve long been a fan of micro-payments as a key to get out of debt. This has worked for us—we simply target our smallest bill and every nickel or penny gleaned from the street gets thrown at it. Twenty-five dollars of baby-sitting money, or a $5 rebate from buying batteries, whatever it is, we [...]
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After my last post complaining about expensive (or worse, rental) wheels on POS cars, I was surprised at how many people responded. Wow! You people really care about your rides!
I thought I’d post this question—many of us consider our cars one of our money mistakes and others call them investments. To others, they’re toys. Where [...]
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I started this post before Christmas, but afraid that I’d be booed and hushed for being a humbugging Grinch, I elected to wait. Now I’m taking a more scientific approach, rather than all theory.
My family this year experienced a “light” Christmas. This was by choice, not by force.
Let me back up a bit. One year [...]
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An interesting trend has developed in my life the last few months.
I think I’m growing up.
I mean, of course I’m growing up. But, I think I’m really moving into a new stage in my life. I find myself not caring as much about things that I used too…and caring more about new, more adult things. [...]
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After the holidays, I’m going to run a series called,
Wedding Planning 101: How To Survive The Wedding Planning Process Without Losing Your Mind (or Wallet)
A debtkid reader, Kimberly will be authoring the series, and I will be throwing in my own two cents as well as I go through the wedding planning process myself.
Some of [...]
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We Just Thought We Were “Gazelle Intense”
Dave Ramsey talks about being “gazelle intense” like live-or-die, about-to-be-lion-food crazy about getting out of debt.
Six months ago, I thought we’d seen that. Sure, we’d had garage sales and sold nearly everything that we didn’t need around the house. We paid extra on everything and applied “windfall money” to [...]
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I’m not living my dream. This isn’t what I had planned. I’ve had three major dreams of mine crushed in the past few years.
My dream growing up was to be an officer in the military.
My dream family didn’t include divorced parents.
My dream of being financially stable got a whallop when I day-traded away 250K.
How exactly [...]
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I don’t mess around with platitudes and greetings. I prefer to cut right to the chase and show that I truly care about someone by helping them. I’m just not that good at saying so. Don’t get me wrong. I’m no recluse, I truly care about people I don’t even know, and regularly help [...]
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The whirlwind of getting engaged is now past me.
Whew.
It’s wonderful getting to share a special story and event with my family and friends, but it’s also incredibly exhausting.
It also invites more questions than I am used too, and more than I am comfortable with.
For the past 2-3 years I’ve really tried to stay out of [...]
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Ok, I know this is late–I’m actually already working on my December update, but I do want to do a little happy dance and announce some progress on the debt-freedom project at my house.
What a year it’s been. As I expected, I’ve felt myself loosing steam and energy this fall (these Seattle winters…being nine months [...]
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