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
Back in January, I told you all that I decided to try to pay off our Chevy Malibu in 8 months or less. How are we doing? Well, if you check out our debt scale on the right sidebar, you'll see we only have 22%, or $3,286 left of the original … [Read more...] about Only 2 more months to pay off the Malibu!
How many of you get those spam emails with "Your $1000 Home Depot Gift Card is waiting for you" or "Click here to pick up your free 42" Plasma TV"? I did, and I got 2 Sony Vaio laptops and a $1000 Visa gift card out of it. You see, not all of … [Read more...] about How I Get Laptops and Plasma TVs for Free
Yesterday, I shocked you with how much we spent in 1 year (2006) on our cars. To recap, the 2 of us own 3 vehicles that cost us about $22,000 last year: 1. 2006 Honda Ridgeline RTS - the biggest loan (about $25k left), but the most … [Read more...] about Overspending on Cars – What do we do now?
We own 3 cars. That's right. Two people, 3 cars. 1. 2006 Honda Ridgeline RTS 2. 2005 Chevrolet Malibu 3. 1997 Pontiac Grand Am (Why do all advertisements for vehicles show silver ones?) The breakdown for car costs in 2006 As I write this, … [Read more...] about What happened to our $22,000!?! Oh, that’s where it went…
This week was a good week. I'm very proud of my "Insulating Your Crawl Space Properly" post, as it was featured on LifeHack.org, and a few other websites. Here's the rest of my clever articles this past week: I actually snuck a post in on … [Read more...] about Clever Dude’s Week in Review Feb 11-16
