I got a notice yesterday that today is the first day to register for Fall 2007 courses for my masters program. Since it's my first semester in this program, and the first time I've had to handle tuition on my own, I wasn't sure what the process would … [Read more...] about Registered for my first semester. It hurt
Just last week, I broke the news that we paid off our $25,000 car loan in just 25 months. When we first bought the car, we weren't trying to pay it off fast, but I just began putting increasing amounts towards each payment, and sending multiple … [Read more...] about What’s our next “Early Payoff” challenge?
After reading NoCreditNeeded's article titled "Drip, Drip, Drip Your Way Out of Debt", I got to wondering "How much interest did we save by paying off our Malibu almost 4 years early?" I hopped on over to the Bankrate Auto Loan Calculator and … [Read more...] about How we dripped our way out of debt
The Carnival of Personal Finance is 2 years old today, and JD from Get Rich Slowly has hosted 82 "Best Of" articles in this edition. Yours truly submitted Frugal Lunch as CleverDude.com's best article, but as you know, it wasn't even my own … [Read more...] about Best of the Best: Carnival of Personal Finance Review
Just a couple days ago, I mentioned that we had about $3,300 left to pay on our car loan, and that we would pay it off over the next 2 months. Well, I jumped the gun. I was looking through our budget and saw that I could pay the credit card … [Read more...] about Breaking News: We’ve paid off our car loan early!
NCN from No Credit Needed Network has posted the 90th Carnival of Debt Reduction. I admit that I haven't really followed this carnival since I'm always so busy getting through the Festival of Frugality and Carnival of Personal Finance, but NCN was … [Read more...] about 90th Carnival of Debt Reduction – Recap
