Published in September 10th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
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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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Published in August 30th, 2008
We adopted a kitten back in March (Romie, pictured to the left) because I was wanting one. We already have an older cat (Toby, 5 years old) but he took more to my husband and didn’t want much to do with me. I was wanting a pet of my own, so we adopted. [...]
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Published in August 28th, 2008
Last time on Credit Card 101, I addressed what types of options are available when it comes to credit cards (and the like). This time I’ll be taking a look at how credit card companies make their money, which is really just another way of saying that you are wasting yours.
This series is a way [...]
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Published in August 21st, 2008
I got my first credit card when I turned 18. I remember feeling like I was part of some elite club when I got the envelope in the mail, and despite my mom’s warnings to “be careful” and “don’t get in over your head”…I didn’t listen. Big shocker, right?
I figured one credit card wouldn’t hurt [...]
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Published in August 16th, 2008
I’m currently in Chicago on a business trip with the hubby. Taking that into consideration, I asked a few inspirational PF bloggers to write a guest post for me this week. This articles comes to you from Ashley who takes an honest look at family finances over at Wide Open Wallet! Her writing has inspired [...]
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Published in July 22nd, 2008
If you take a look at the vacation fund progress bar over there in the side column, you’ll see that it went from some 85% down to roughly 30% since yesterday. I had to “borrow” $388 from it to pay for my eye exam, contact lenses, and new glasses (frames and lenses) today, which [...]
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Published in July 21st, 2008
If you pay attention to my Twitter updates over there on the sidebar, you may have noticed that I was in a 4 wheeling accident this past weekend. If you don’t read the Twitter updates…then this is news to you. So let me explain.
Dave and I went up north with his dad and brother Friday [...]
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Published in July 14th, 2008
So for the time being I am going to be putting a hold on our savings goals. We have more than the $1000 recommended emergency fund going for us, so I figured rather than continuing to send the $200/month to savings…I’m going to snowflake that amount into our debt snowball!
I don’t know why I [...]
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