Archive for Personal
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Day 223: When Paying Off Debt, Standing Room Only Is Good Enough For Us
The Queen of Debt and I love baseball. This was true before we moved to Boston, but living in Boston has only fueled our fire for the game. We lucked out when we chose our apartment over the internet from North Carolina, in that we can see Fenway Park from our apartment. Going to Red Sox games is...
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Day 219: We Need to Document Everything
The number one thing that we don’t do well is saving our paperwork. We don’t save receipts on expensive purchases, we don’t write down or printo out confirmation numbers with any regularity. It is the one area that we need to do a much better job. Drop us a comment and let us now what you d...
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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....
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Day 207: Walking & Netflix Keep Us Amused
Our guilty pleasure is Netflix, and we take full advantage of it. We utilize the three at a time plan. We could go for the two at a time, but three is only three bucks more and it keeps at least a movie in the house every day. We’re not couch potatoes though, though I have packed on a few extr...
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Day 267: A Review of Our 2007 Goals #1
In the beginning of 2007 we posted a few of our goals for 2007. Since the first month of the year is out of the way, that means it’s time for us to review where we are in accomplishing our goals for 2007. Our first goal of 2007 is debt reduction. We are planning on paying off all of our credit...
