Today, I received a $100 check from the company I work for. Well, it was actually $61.40 after they took all the taxes out of it.
This check was a reward for one year of service without having an accident. It’s not that difficult for me to work without an accident, since I have an office [...]
I’ve had my debt snowball in place and have been anxious to put the plan in action, but haven’t had extra money to put toward the debt, due to having work hours cut around the holidays and a huge electric bill.
Well, thanks to a day of overtime at work and selling some stuff on Ebay, [...]
Yesterday, I bought a new programmable thermostat and installed it in about 30 minutes.
I was inspired by getting one of the biggest electricity bills I’ve ever had.
My hope is that by setting the thermostat to let the house stay pretty cool all day when no one is here and then heating it up right before [...]
Today in the United States, we inaugurated our 44th President Barack Obama. It was a special day for me, for my own personal reason.
He was elected on November 4th, 2008- the same day I decided it was time to really get serious about getting rid of my debt.
I was behind on payments and getting phone [...]
I have a card through Washington Mutual (was called Providian went I got it, now it’s owned by Chase) that lets me see my FICO credit score each month on their web site. I also signed up to receive an email update if the score ever changed by more than 20 points in a month. [...]
I realized I wanted to put more than just the credit card debt on my “Debt Snowball” and realized I had made some mistakes on my original post, so I completely revised my previous post about the Debt Snowball.
