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One Month Challenge Day 23
Previously at We’re In Debt, we said that we were going to take the One Month Challenge offered up at the Simple Dollar, to track our spending for the month of January to find out if we had any spending leaks in our bucket, to prepare ourselves to better meet our goals for 2007. Make the jump ...
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Choosing The Best Debt Snowball Method For You
The debt snowball is the most popular method for reducing debt. In the debt snowball, you pay an extra amount towards your debt on top of your minimum payments. As you payoff balances, you take the amounts from your minimum payments that you are no longer paying and add that to the extra amount. The...
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Day 257: Thank God It’s Cold
It’s finally cold here in Boston, and it’s about time. Fifty degree days in January in Boston, makes you want to run out and preach the gospel of recuded carbon emmisions. Today it is snowing and on Friday the high should be 14 degrees. Yes, that’s 14 degrees. And JLP was complaining…...
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Day 252: You Too Can Lose $3253.51 From Sending Invoices Through Email
I’ve been using Blinksale for all of my freelance invoicing needs. Through Blinksale I have been managing all of my freelance invoices and have been sending my invoices through there email system. Unfortunately as of late, I have not been receiving payments in a timely fashion, if at all. I...
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Day 253: 5 Great Personal Finance Blogs
Today was a bill pay day for us, as is every 15th day of the month. Yes, I know it’s the 17th, but we schedule all of our bills on the 15th. They just don’t post until the 17th. But that’s not the point of this post. We’re here today to highlite 5 great personal finance blogs. So make the ju...
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Job Change?
Boston Gal takes a look at this CNN article that says that 50% of Americans mull job changes. She wonders if we (not “we” specifically, but a collective we) are in that 50% of Americans who think about changing their jobs. When you work in technology, like I do, you always listen to recru...
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Did You Get a Christmas Bonus?
Many companies have stopped giving Christmas bonuses, but now is the time for performance bonuses. What should you do with those bonuses? Well, the good folks over at the Bean Counter Blog have the answer. Using your bonus to further your finances should be the number one priority. While it wou...
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Simple Finances: Put Your Debt Reduction On Auto Pilot
One of the easiest ways to payoff your debt, is to not know that you are doing it. Set everything up to run on auto pilot. If you are planning to eliminate your debt, you need to make it easy for you to be successful. One way to do this, is to forget about your debt payments. If you don’t see t...
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Rodeo of Debt Reduction #2
Welcome to the second Rodeo of Debt Reduction here at We’re In Debt. As always, the Rodeo of Debt Reduction is a quick list of posts that caught our eye from the personal finance blogosphere. So, make the jump and get on with the show. 1. The first post that we have to recognize is this awe...
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Day 239: Oh, money, where art though?
Lately, I have been having a lot of trouble collecting payments from clients. It seems that at the end of year, people just don’t want to pay you. Maybe it’s because their budgets have dried up, or maybe the cash flow just isn’t there. This is actually the first time that I may be stiffed o...
