My Debt Reduction Blog

Yesterday our kitchen sink just stopped draining. When I got home from work I took apart the piping under the sink to see if it was something I could clear up. There was no issues with the easily accessible pipes so I tried using a plumbers snake to see if I could clear out the [...]

I went though all our spending from August and made a spread sheet of the totals. Some of the totals were a wee bit shocking. 19 trips to the grocery store for a total of almost $600(We need to work on reducing trips), and the other big shocker was over $1700 to the pre-school. That [...]

I opened up an HSBC Direct account last month and am surprised to still not see any interest earned on the account. I emailed their customer support to find out if something is wrong, but have not heard back yet.

We haven’t ran the a/c all day and my normal threshold is an interior house temperature of 78 degrees before I will turn it on. Right now at 4:53pm in the afternoon the middle of my house is at 78 degrees and I’m fighting the urges to close up the house and turn on the [...]

Back in August I wrote about a service fee listing on my checking account statement for $37. A charge I normally just ignored and ‘accepted’. I’ve finally took the initiative to find about more about what made up this fee by calling my bank and simply asking for an explanation. The rep said I was [...]

For water usage, we get billed every two months and the bill usually averages $95-$100. Just over two months ago I installed a new toilet which uses much less water, and I was wondering if I would notice a difference on our next bill. Well, we just got the next bill and the total was [...]