State of the Debt, Tax Season Has Eaten My Brain Edition

March 13, 2009

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Glancing at the calendar, I notice that almost half of the month has disappeared in a pile of other people’s tax documents. The brain is just a little crispy right now…
Which is not to say that little has gotten done with our debt destruction progress. Actually, all of a sudden [...]

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State of The Debt, A New Beginning

February 1, 2009

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As I mentioned in my last post, we accomplished something that I consider absolutely huge — we no longer have any credit card debt. And I’d like to extend my thanks to Chase for being the pricks they are for motivating us to pull as much out of budget in order to [...]

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First Time in Two Decades

January 30, 2009

For the first time since I initially laid down the plastic to pick up some trinket almost 20 years ago, we are officially credit card debt free!
Following my little rant over Chase doing extensive modifications to our agreement, we shuffled a few items around in our budget, waited for my side business commission check to [...]

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Chase Can Bite Me

January 8, 2009

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With the success of our recently discovered income source, all of a sudden we have a healthy chunk of extra debt destroying powers. Since we have a variety of potential targets, we sat down recently to decide which target was most deserving of the full wrath we could focus on it, and [...]

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State of the Debt: ‘Let The Blood Letting Begin’ Edition

January 2, 2009

photo credit: Civisi
Hope everyone had a joyous Christmas as well as a safe and wonderful New Years! Most of my free time this month was spent doing as much family stuff as can be squeezed into the ridiculously cold weather December decided to throw at us. But since we live in the Midwest, it’s [...]

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State of the Debt, Still In a Turkey Coma ‘08

December 2, 2008

photo credit: Andrew Huff
A quick thought on the title: With my brother and sister both in from their respective corners of the country to celebrate Thanksgiving as well as my side’s Christmas, far too many opportunities to partake were presented. And, quite honestly, fully taken advantage of.
I don’t know about you, but I could [...]

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