Archive for July 5th, 2007

A couple of new sites to my reader »

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

Zen Habits 12 step program »

Recently Zen Habits posted a 12 step get out of debt program, and while we’re not on it specifically, I’d say we’d be at step 5 if we were.
We’ve

Aknowledged the problem - We’ve enrolled in a debt management program
Stop digging - We’ve stopped using credit cards and stopped playing the transfer around game
Make small cutbacks [...]

Finally starting to track spending »

We don’t have a budget, at least not yet. I couldn’t tell you how much we spend on any particular expense in any given month. Cripes, I couldn’t even tell you how much income we have in a month. Sure, I could ballpark it pretty close, but we need an exact plan. So starting in [...]

No more Netflix for us »

Over the last couple of years we’ve been trying to cut expenses where ever possible. However, one that we’ve held on to was our $18.99/month Netflix account. I’ve wanted to cancel it, but watching movies is the only really form of entertainment we have. I’ve tried going to their lesser plans, but it seems as [...]

How I spent my third paycheck »

I get paid every other Friday, that means twice a year I receive 3 paychecks in a month and June was one of those months. I’ve aways considered this to be extra money(which I know is wrong). Even though we don’t have a budget, yet, we’ve based all our bill paying around me getting the [...]