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WOOT! Efforts are starting to show.

May 2, 2008

I will say one thing… blogging has helped so far to keep me focused from spending money and more so on saving money and making money. Last week we were able to send a check for 410.00 extra towards our vinyl siding loan, bringing the total down from 7000 to about 6590, then yesterday the [...]

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Money saving tip: You can get a free month of vonage, dish network and others

April 21, 2008

Are you a Dish Network or Vonage customer? I am and have had great experiences with both of them, nothing but great reviews here. Ever wish you could save some moolah? You can. Not everyone can afford to do this, I myself find the money is more helpful paying off principal to save interest on [...]

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How to get out of debt: The short list

April 21, 2008

Okay, this will seem a little long winded, but it is my basic recipe that brought us to the ability to start paying down bills. 1. You have to be in control of your finances, by this I mean you really need to know where every cent of your monthly income is going out. Some [...]

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How we got where we are…

April 21, 2008

When we first got married, life was simple, no house payments (we rented), no car payments, no student loan payments, just our income to use how we wanted. Fast forward 8.X years and its the opposite end of the spectrum. At 135k in debt, we can’t afford to do anything with our income but try [...]

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A list of all our debts, this is the starting place: I will be debt free someday

April 21, 2008

Okay, so here is what is left to pay. We just finished paying off a private student loan, so now we are putting that extra 200 a month towards our siding loan ( more on this later). Debt focus(we put every penny we can here now):Siding loan 7,000 remaining (we put vinyl siding on the [...]

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First post, what this is all about…

April 21, 2008

Hi there, thanks for stopping by. My goal in this blog will be to journalize my journey to a life without debt. I am an engineer and solve difficult and nearly impossible tasks for a living, so why should our finances be any different. I have already been working at this for a couple months [...]

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