This week’s Friday Financial Foul Up will feature a guest post by new blogger and frequent twitterer Jeff from Deliver Away Debt. Jeff has found himself with a large amount of debt and has taken to delivering pizzas as a means of paying it off. For those that follow him on twitter, he shares with [...]
Category Archives: Debt
Committing Personal Finance Sin – Why I Bought a NEW Car
Wow, a month off, a new site, a new perspective on a lot of things. Man, it feels good to be writing again. That said, I solved one of my biggest issues that I needed to solve over the summer, getting a new car. When I say new, this was not a “new to me” [...]
Learn About Your Credit Score – A Quick Guide
An informative episode of the Personal Finance Hour this week has me thinking about credit scores. There will be my recap of the most recent episode posted on the PFH’s website later on today/tomorrow but I wanted to share some information with the readers of this site that I thought would have value.
Credit score myths:
Having [...]
Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck – Tactical Tips
Statistics vary, but regardless of which source you look at, there is over 40% of working adults in the US that are living paycheck to paycheck (these numbers get up as high as 70%). That is a lot of people that are one emergency or job loss away from being in financial disaster. Now, if [...]
How I attacked my $10,000 Credit Card Debt
Today’s post is about the strategy I used to get myself out of credit card debt. Eight months ago I had almost $10,000 of consumer debt. I knew that January 1st was going to be when I had my personal financial revolution but getting to that date was beginning to become overwhelming.
I had a mountain [...]