Archive for December, 2006
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Day 218: Make Sure That Your Budget Includes a Little Extra For Yourself
When you’re married, finances are typically the number one cause of stress. There’s a constant tug of war that occurs between the two of you. One will want pizza one night, while the other attempts to remain strong, and stick to a budget. This is tough at times, because everyone has bad days ...
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Day 217: It’s Bill Pay Time
It’s the middle of the month, and that means that it is time to payoff some debt. I spent the evening planning everything and the bills are all in line to get paid. Once the credit card companies have posted all the payments in the next few days, we’ll update the old progress bar in the upper le...
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Day 214: Look Out for Free Things to Do
One thing that the Queen of Debt and myself are horrible at, is finding free things to do in Boston. It’s not that information is posted, it’s just a matter of us looking for it. Today we journeyed over to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, because we had seen that it was free to ge...
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Day 213: Debtfolio Getting a Facelift
I had previously reviewed Debtfolio a while ago. At the time, I was not overly impressed with the site, though I did think that it was a pretty good idea. After checking it out a little more this evening, I found out that the company behind Debtfolio, is in the midst of a complete rewrite of the s...
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Day 212: We’ve Updated Our Life Insurance Policies
When you are married or in any sort of relationship, where your finances are married together, life insurance is an important aspect of your financial lives. Life insurance should protect your spouse, or significant other in the event of a premature death. In the even that something happens to you, ...
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Here’s Another Reason Not to Spend Money on Sodas
Healthbolt has posted an article on what coca cola does to your body. I’ve stated before the I had given up soda previously, but this only confirms that it could only be beneficial. So, I would suggest that you give up the soda and save the cash to eliminate some debt....
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Day 211: Filling Out the Old Christmas List
When someone asks us “what do you guys want for Christmas”, we are forced to stop and think. The debt reduction answer says, “money is fine”. The greedy answer lists out a cornucopia of wants and desires that we have been holding off for the past year. The realistic answer bubbles to the top...
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Day 210: Better Work Life Balance
We love to preach the joys of simple living with a good life work balance. Unfortunately as of late, our life work has been greatly out of wack. As I have been freelancing more and more to increase our income to more quickly eliminate our debt, the amount of fun in our lives has decreased greatly. ...
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Day 209: The Laptop That Won’t Go Away
Many of you are probably aware of our extraneous laptop issue with ecost.com. Well, we decided to sell the laptop on ebay, and the issues only keep rolling on with this darn MacBook. Typically, selling on ebay is fairly easy. You post the auction. Someone bids and wins your item. You send th...
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Day 208: Aww Shucks, No Porsche
Well, as anyone could have guessed, we were unable to acquire a Porsche through the American Express My Wishlist promotion. We weren’t really thinking that we would, but we had to try....
