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From the monthly archives:
Peter was beside himself with excitement to be invited to a birthday party for one of his preschool classmates. It was all he could talk about ever since I made the mistake of showing him showed him the invitation that came in the mail.
When my kids are invited to birthday parties, I typically spend between [...]
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Some of you all might recall that I have a habit of sometimes forgetting to pay a bill?
I like to refer to myself as The Reluctant Nerd. Those of you who follow Dave Ramsey should get a chuckle out of that.
Imagine my surprise when I got the AT&T bill and it was double what it [...]
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It’s fortunate for me that a child’s attention span is easily distracted. Olivia has begged me off and on to take another “acting class” — ever since I put her in a local class called Story Book Dramas — over a year ago – where a bunch of munchkins read a story together in the [...]
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$$ GOOD READS $$
The Happy Housewife: Your Military Benefits: The Commissary and Exchange
$5 Dinners: Sunday Night Meetings
Wisebread: The Debt Trap: Factors That Have Led Us To Our Debt
Thomas J. Stanley, PhD: The Low Profile Millionaire Next Door
Get Rich Slowly: Sweating the Big Stuff
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November’s Progress
Debt #1 Original Balance: $2260.17
Paid Off
Debt #2 Original Balance: $6493.00
Paid Off
Debt #3 Previous Balance: $6,607.12
paid $1000.00
Current Balance: $4,907.12
Original non-mortgage Debt: $19,375.72Current Grand Total: $4,907.12***
Obviously our tenants moving out of our rental house in Vegas is going to put a damper on our debt eradication. We can cash flow two mortgages… But it ain’t pretty.Looking [...]
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VIVA LAS VEGAS!
I really expected this day to come, but I was earnestly hoped that it would at least wait until we finished paying off our first debt snowball.
I’m goal-oriented, people. I really want to tick that box. Do you add things to your to-do list after you’ve done them just so you can cross [...]
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