My Debt Reduction Blog

Although the term vacation is somewhat misleading. What I should say is, that I’m not working this week at my regular day-job. You see, the term vacation usually means not working, or relaxing, or having some kind of fun. Other than today when we took our oldest child on a train ride to downtown Chicago, [...]

She’s pretty excited, but a little disappointed at the same time. She has a lot of school work to do this weekend so she won’t be able to start reading until next week. Or so she tells me. If I were a betting man, I’d put down good money that she will be at least [...]

Was searching for a new wordpress theme for the blog tonight and came across 2 right away that I liked. I’m trying them both on a bit to see which I like better.

Right now I’m leaning to the greener one.

While this may be obvious to most people, it wasn’t obvious to me. Yesterday while I was on the road I stopped at a Qdobas for lunch. While standing in line, I was looking over the menu trying to decide what I wanted to drink. I’m not really a soda drinker, never have been, but [...]

From our Netflix queue, we received and watched another movie about the ugly side of credit cards and credit card companies evil tactics to keeps Americans in debt forever called In Debt We Trust.
This movie was very similar to Maxed Out which we watched a couple of weeks ago. To the point that there [...]

Friday at 5:30pm starts my one week vacation. And boy, do I need it after the way last week ended and this week began. Things at work have finally mellowed out a bit allowing me to get caught up on my billing and paper work. Hoping for no major issues over the next couple of [...]

Even though I haven’t been tagged by anyone, that’s ok I’m still new to the scene, I thought I would participate in the 8 things about me hoopla!

I actually like to shovel snow
I prefer Winter over Summer, but am always happy when Winter comes to an end
I bought my first domain name in 1997 and [...]

I like it, but I still don’t think it quite fits the bill. This weekend I plan to really look for a nice 3 column theme thats fits my ’simple’ personality.

We’ve decided to pay off two credit card bills this week. We’re pulling $2,000 out of our ING account to do it, which leaves us with $4,000 in our emergency fund. We are paying off the credit card with the highest interest and the card with the lowest balance. In the end, this will give [...]

I’m always on the look out for interesting sites similar to mine and today I’ve added two more to my daily reads in Google Reader.
They are:

Clever Dude
Blogging Away Debt