While browsing through my Google Reader last night, just after posting my 100% financed article for today, I happened upon One Frugal Girl's article "What were you thinking when you purchased your home?" where she commented on a Washington Post … [Read more...] about Is this us? Washington Post writer has a similar mortgage story
In my post "Against the grain: Why we chose an interest-only mortgage", I told you why we didn't get a normal 30-year mortgage when we bought our home 3 years ago. I explained why I don't think it was a stupid decision for our situation, but I … [Read more...] about Maxing out your home loan: 100% financing
Another week has gone by, and another Festival of Frugality has been hosted by Frugal for Life. This is her 8th one! I didn't have any frugal posts, so I didn't participate in this one, but I'd still like to highlight some of my favorites: The … [Read more...] about Best Frugality Articles from Festival of Frugality #87
Brian from Financial Dominance asked an interesting question on my post about our Zero Debt Goal. He asks: Have you written a post about why you went with the interest only mortgage? My thought was that most of the personal finance bloggers advocate … [Read more...] about Against the grain: Why we chose an interest-only mortgage
May 15, 2009. That's when we'll have the remaining $54,737 of our debt paid off according to our budget. I actually plan my budget for 5 years down the road. It's not as crazy as you think, though, because I do a lot of copy and pasting. In … [Read more...] about Our Zero-Debt Goal Date is…
...you can accomplish anything. That's what I realized today while discussing our debt with a friend. You see, I know how much debt we started with ($112,890), and I know how much we have remaining ($54,737), but I never thought about how we got down … [Read more...] about When you put your mind to it…
