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Sleighbells ring …
Thank you to everyone who chimed in with gift ideas for my nephews. I got some INCREDIBLE ideas and to be honest, I haven’t gone shopping yet to actually buy their gifts. Yes, I know that time is getting short, I also know that I might be stuck in Minnesota for part of my family’s festivities due to a massive snow storm that’s coming in. As much as I’m worried that I might not make it home for Christmas Eve, … Continue reading
Getting my financial house in order
First and foremost – THANK YOU for all of the kind comments that were left on my last post. As you can imagine, being bad debt free is a reward in and of itself, but to hear your kind words … it’s just amazing. So yeah – this is the second weekend of my life being debt free. Before you think that I’m totally living it up in some swank location, I’m at the cab company pulling a 12 hour … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Living, Random!, Where My Money Goes, work
Tagged cash, Dave Ramsey, debt-free, future, savings, spending
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The mystery of plumbing and why $2 is a good investment
Do you want to absolutely confound me? Talk technical to me. Our town’s municipal utility informed hubby and I the other day that we have a malfunctioning water meter and that they would drop by sometime between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday to take a look at it. (I love the two-hour time frame … but God love the repair guy, he was at my house by 2:30 p.m.) While the repair guy and I have no clue what … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Relationships, Where My Money Goes, work
Tagged babies, cabin, insurance, money, plumbing, ultrasound
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This weekend’s awesome article roundup
Regular readers of this blog know that I have a second job on the weekends – working a 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift at the local cab company. One of the reasons that I like this job (since I’m not entirely fond of waking up at the buttcrack of dawn) is that the eight hours I spend at my job are spent in front of a computer, answering phone calls and setting up cabs for people in my fair … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Good Reading, Money Saving Strategies, Reader Input, Where My Money Goes, work
Tagged article, frugal tips, happiness, kitchen, laziness, slacker
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Entering into the home stretch
Well friends – barring any kind of financial emergency – tomorrow I will be paying $400 towards my credit card debt snowball and will have another credit card paid off which leaves … ONE. (I can hear Count Von Count in my head “One! One more credit card! Ah, ha, ha!” Yeah – I may be 31, but I’m still a four-year-old at heart.) This card carries a balance of about $1,230.00 and with luck and work, I will be … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Where My Money Goes, work
Tagged college loans, credit card, Debt Reduction, finish line
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When the future is colored by your hormonal state of mind
I should probably preface this by saying “No, mom – I’m not pregnant – we’re not talking about THOSE hormones.” Now that we’ve gotten that cleared up, here’s the gist of what I’m going to say today: I’m in a bad mood. I was in a bad mood yesterday and Tuesday was also rather crappy. Today hit a fever pitch of crappiness and somewhere in between wanting to cry at an email one of my sales guys sent to me … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Random!, work
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What do I miss about my former life?
Beks at Blogging Away Debt had an interesting post the other day talking about stretching to new goals and how things have changed for her and her husband since they took on their debt free journey. Beks doesn’t miss credit card debt, but she does miss the yearly vacations that they charged on their credit cards. She then asked her readers what they missed the most on their debt reduction journeys. I had to think about that for a day … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Random!, Relationships, Where My Money Goes, work
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Decluttering: Breaking up with my email subscriptions
Sometimes I wonder how I got into the mess that I’m in financially. And like my ballooning waistline or the stack of unread books, magazines and articles that I’ve clipped out over the years and have failed to file – I’m beginning to notice a trend. When it comes to my life, I’m pretty damn undisciplined. Don’t get me wrong – I show up at work every day. I do hold down two jobs and I do laundry on a … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Relationships, Where My Money Goes, work
Tagged declutter, email, organization
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Credit Card Goals: Like waiting for Christmas
I like to think that I am a patient person. I used to work as a reporter for a cops and courts beat and I used to tell people that my career and life was spent waiting in the lobbies of courthouses or at the cop shop waiting for some ranking officer to come read me the protected Initial Compliant Report (ICR) report. And there were times when I was in those police stations where I think I was kept … Continue reading
Living in the Now
I have one coworker of mine who is ridiculous about sending me email forwards, but every once in awhile she’ll send me one that’s pretty good. Here’s today’s offering: Written By Regina Brett of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio who writes “My odometer rolled over in August, so here is the column once more”: 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time … Continue reading
Posted in Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Relationships, Where My Money Goes, work
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