Entries Categorized as 'Personal Finance'

Countdown to Debt Free

Date May 12, 2008

At the end of last month, I paid off my student loans - it was quite hard to write a $14,000 check, but once it was written, I didn’t regret it at all. It feels great knowing they are out of the way. The only debt I have left at this point (other [...]

My Top 10 Ways to Save Money

Date September 10, 2007

1) Cut the cable
Do you really need those 100 channels you never watch?  I have an HDTV that picks up over the air channels and I can assure you that my FOX, NBC, ABC, and PBS look just as good, if not better, than anything you would get on cable.  It does mean giving up [...]

Money Choices

Date July 1, 2007

So I set a goal for myself at the beginning of 2007 - that goal was to be debt free except the house by the end of the year.  (Yeah - I drank the Dave Ramsey kool-aid…well, mostly at least…)  After the first few months, I figured out how to trim my expenses even more [...]