Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Life has been rough over the past few months. Well, our financial life has been rough. We found out we were pregnant in late April. Due to the previous miscarriages the doctor recommended taking it lightly at least during the first trimester. So my wife quit her nanny job and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Yes we're still alive. Times are a-gettin tough, but we're making it.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
As previously mentioned, my wife's employer was out of country for at least two weeks. Well she received word it will be another two weeks. They are at least paying her for one missed week which is nice. So all-in-all, we'll be missing another week of pay.
Luckily I've been working ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
My paycheck for this Friday is going to be $200 more dollars than I planned for.
Gonna throw that at the Citi debt!
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
As of today, Capital One1 has been paid off!!
Also we received our tax refund and $2,000 of that will be paying off Chase on Friday!!
Chase has been offering 0% and 3.99% balance transfers out the wazoo lately so I'm going to do the math to see if it's worthy as ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Over the last fifteen days we have been spending our money like crazy for no good reason. I wish I could explain it.
Granted I could try to justify all we bought and I usually do to myself.
We've spent over $300 on clothing and shoes. I did need some new jeans ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
One of our biggest problems is going out on a Saturday night and going to a few stores and buying something in each of them.
Total damage this past Saturday night: $43.65 and $18 out of our $50 dining out monthly budget.
Almost $25 of the $43 was spent at Half-Price Books. ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Well once again we are pregnant. Somewhere around 4-6 weeks. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to get the first glimpse of the peanut. This means we will really have to cramp down on spending and the debt reduction and start saving. I've considered looking for a part-time ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
I had been reading a few stories about consolidating credit cards should you have more than one with the same company. Since I fit into that demographic, I called up Citi and asked to combine the accounts. The process was very painless and fast.
One card had a variable rate that ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Received great news when I logged into my electricity account today.
The deposit that we had to give last year when we set up the account of $105 was applied to the balance of this months bill.
I budgeted $200 for the electricity this month. The actual bill was $219 but with ...
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