Archive for Personal
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Day 248: Watch Out For Visiting Friends
It’s always great to see old friends when they come to ye ole Boston, but as with any form of entertainment, there is always an expense involved. And this expense is always a budget buster. You won’t have to do anything extravagent, but even a couple day visit can easily turn into $100 or more. ...
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Day 266: Looking Out Into the Near Future
Alot of us make long term goals, like buying a house or saving retirement. We also make short term personal finance goals like creating an emergency fund or paying off a credit card. One thing that we have been trying to work on, is planning for our immediate financial needs. Sometime we find our...
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Day 259: Red Sox Tickets Go On Sale, We Won’t be Buying
Red Sox tickets are going on sale this Staturday for all of the games this season, and we won’t be buying. We’ve bought tickets in previous years, but this year we are going to opt out. We have already purchased a pair of standing room only tickets, in an earlier ticket sale, for one game, but t...
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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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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 234: 2006 Is Coming to a Close
It’s December 30th and we are about 24 hours from the end of 2006. While, financially, this wasn’t a great year for us, educationally we are prepared for 2007 and are looking forward to getting out of debt and building wealth, the right way. 2007 is looking bright for us, and hopefully all of ou...
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Day 233: This Hurts Even More…Well, Not Really
On top of my dental appointment (that’ll be updated later), we now have a $1700 sway bar and lower control arm to replace. This is on a fairly new car. But, the best part is that this doesn’t sting. We were prepared to handle an event like this. Our budget includes socking a couple hundred do...
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Day 232: Holy #%&*, That Hurts
There’s a moral behind this post. One that I am quickly learning, and one that is probably going to cost us a little money. A long time ago, I had some seriously bad experiences with a dentist. They were so bad, I didn’t visit a dentist regularly for 7 or 8 years. I made sure to brush, and us...
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Day 224: Discover’s Cashback Bonus Is Paying Off Our Debt
We love our Discover card. The reason that we love our Discover Card is that we are making about $20 a month, with Discover’s Cash Back Bonus, that can be applied almost directly to our debt. We use the Discover Card, because out of the two cash rewards cards that we have, it has the highest ra...
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Meme: 5 Things About Us That Are Not Common Knowledge
I hate chocolate. I once lived in Arizona for a few months to get away from it all. I am from NC originally. I was once mugged by drag queens in New Orleans. When I was a kid, we lived next door to James Best, aka Roscoe P. Coltrane from the Dukes of Hazzard. The Queen of Debt secretly l...
