My Debt Reduction Blog

Yup, you read that correctly. Certainly not what you should be reading on a blog of a family trying to get out of debt, but it is true. My feet have been hurting from my old and worn out work shoes, and I’ve been looking for a long time for a nice ‘inexpensive’ pair of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Total: $21
Saturday, my camera club had a photowalk at the Tall Ships festival which cost $10 to get in. Then I was there for lunch, so a brat and bottle of water set me back another $5. Sunday, we took the whole family ice skating. Admission was free because we are members but I had [...]

I decided to start a new segment called ‘Weekend Spending Report’ where I will summarize a bit where some of our cash went over the weekend. Why? A) I need to post more, and B) weekends generally are where we spend the most unnecessarily; and this could help teach us more control.
We were actually well [...]