My Debt Reduction Blog

Earlier this year we decided that we would cancel our home phone service, which we hardly ever use, and that would reduce our monthly expenses by over $43. We decided we would wait til the school year was over and then over the summer figure out everywhere that has our home number and update them [...]

Work has been just crazy this month. So crazy in fact that I think we may have a record number of billable hours. I alone have 20 more billable hours than usual at month end. It’s great to be busy, but there was a lot of stress along with these hours. And if the work [...]

One trip to the grocery store for $15 and that was it. Though we had no choice. The checking account is almost wiped and I didn’t get my paycheck on Friday because I was out of the office all day. Was hoping the paycheck would have been sitting on my desk this morning when I [...]

A long time ago we gave up our satellite dish and went with $12/month basic cable in an effort to reduce expenses. I don’t regret the decision one bit, except for tonight. I’m a huge Nascar fan, and unable to watch the best race of the year. I’m sitting here at home with my laptop [...]

We’ve been buying this Gerber life insurance for our kids since they were born. That means 6 years for one policy and 4 years for two more policies. And I really have no idea why. When we started, my wife said something about it providing money to the kids when they turn 18 or something, [...]

How cool! I checked my feedburner stats this morning and it says there are 10 subscribers. I know it ain’t that many, compared to lots of other debt blogs, but I’m still really happy to see that. And thank you to all those who subscribe.
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Our biggest monthly expense is getting bigger at the end of the month. Our 2 girls who are currently age 4, have to go another year of day care before they can start kindergarten. Today I just received noticed that the fees are increasing. Right now it costs us $275/week and staring the first week [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I went through my wallet and cleaned out all the ‘plastic’ that I will never use again. After years of have it crammed with this ‘plastic’, a lot of the pockets are stretched out and now with the few items I have remaining, stuff is always falling out when I [...]

And being hosted by I’ve Paid For This Twice Already. I think I’m actually going to submit something to it. It will be my first try, so I may bomb, especially since my posts aren’t too terribly interesting, but worth a shot.

There was a glitch in the system that kept my category from showing properly, but all is good now. I even have a working chart and everything!