Debt Reduction 101

Just when I feel bad about my paltry $5,000 of debt, I find something that makes me feel better. In this case, I just remind myself that I’m not Hillary Clinton who, according to CNN, is currently $6 million in debt. Sure, this is down from $25 million, but I’d love to hear [...]

Rebekah, one of my fellow bloggers, recently posted an article entitled “A Time to Sell.”
Rebekah is taking a Dave Ramsey class and one of his adages is to sell everything to get out of debt.
I love Dave Ramsey’s concept that you should live like no one else so later you will live like [...]

As an avid MSN reader (regular readers will know this is one of my weird Internet addictions …), one of my favorite columns is by Donna Friedman who wrote most of last year about living on $12,000 a year. Friedman has a great writing voice and she has some pretty sound advice.
The other thing [...]

I have no clue if this has anything to do with their recent Dr. Pepper promotion, but today if you visit the Dr. Pepper website, you can click to get a coupon for a free Diet Dr. Pepper.

CNN.com had a fabulous article this week talking about “How couples should negotiate spending cuts.”
I have to be honest – there are so many ways that Future Husband and I are beyond the honeymoon phase in so many parts of our relationship. But the future prospect of sharing finances scares the shit out of [...]

One of my fellow bloggers wrote an article entitled “I’m Not Ashamed to Shop at Thrift Stores.”
What I really liked about this article is how the author was able to tally up her savings by various cost-saving measures. One of them was shopping at thrift stores. Another measure was having her husband bike [...]

There’s something about cold weather and January that makes me reflect upon warmer times. And I swear, every winter I make the same goal – which is that I won’t squander good weather when it finally comes to Minnesota. But I typically do. I don’t grill out enough, I don’t go on [...]

Got an email from my tax guru Edie:
“Hey there – just started on our taxes and geez. I am using (for now) TaxAct.com, like I told you about – and it SUCKS this year! I have used it for the last 3 years and it’s been great – a nice support database, info [...]

Moonlight wondered how much $5 would buy in fresh vegetables. In the dead of winter … not much.
This week I’m going to make a concerted effort to try and eat fresher foods try to lose some of my winter hibernation weight, so I found myself paying attention Saturday when I was at [...]

Last week, I found myself running out of things to write and I had a couple readers chime in some ideas for me to write about (although they probably regret it after one of my 1,000-word doozies – I’ll try to keep this one short.). If there are any questions you have – financial, [...]