Published in November 17th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Quick note as I’m heading out the door for work! I just set up the final payment on my Debt Snowball #2 so that card will be paid off on December 1st! That makes 3 credit cards that I’ve paid [...]
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Published in October 31st, 2008
I did an entire series on credit cards and the benefits and downfalls of them in the past (you can see it by starting here), but I’ve had some friends and family ask me lately on how to go about finding the right credit card for them. That’s a really good question, too!
There are many [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2008
It dawned on me that not everyone who reads here may be in the same financial situation as me. We all have our own struggles and downfalls and differences when it comes to finances. Even if you have bad credit, it’s still possible to get approved for credit cards and other lines of [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2008
October hasn’t been the best in the way of reducing our debt. First, I switched our focus from debt reduction to savings again earlier this month. Then we bought some things that we plan to sell on Ebay next month because we know we can make a decent profit on them since they are hard [...]
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Published in September 20th, 2008
Dave and I bought a living room set (sleeper sofa, love seat, coffee table, 2 end tables & 2 lamps) and queen box spring & mattress a few years back when we moved from one apartment to another. We got a good deal on the furniture and had interest free financing for 4 years. I [...]
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Published in September 18th, 2008
So far we’ve talked about what types of cards there are, how credit card companies make their money, how to reduce your payments and the different types of incentives. The next lesson in our Credit Card 101 rundown is to go over that lovely ol’ option we like to call a cash advance.
Think it’s [...]
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Published in September 11th, 2008
So far we’ve talked about what types of cards there are, how credit card companies make their money and how to reduce your payments. The next lesson in our Credit Card 101 rundown is to go over those incentive plans that often come with credit cards.
I admit that I sometimes choose a credit card [...]
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Published in September 10th, 2008
I don’t normally believe in having store credit cards/lines of credit because they normally charge exhorbitant amounts in interest and they usually only get people in trouble. The one exception I have to this rule is our Best Buy credit card.
I’ve had my Best Buy card since I bought my laptop in the winter of [...]
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Published in September 8th, 2008
So far we’ve talked about what types of cards there are and how credit card companies make their money. The next lesson in our Credit Card 101 rundown is to introduce a few ways on how to reduce your payments. Some people take advantage of these tips and other people are unaware that doing such [...]
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Published in September 2nd, 2008
As of yesterday, I sent my last payment to my Chase credit card, which is now completely paid off. Now, I realize this didn’t have a huge balance to begin with when starting this blog, but I’m doing the smallest to largest method and that was the first one to be focused on. At the [...]
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