Trying to Reduce Interest Paid

I’ve mentioned in several of my blog postings that I would like to consolidate a few of my higher interest credit card balances to a card with a 0% rate, to save money while I’m getting rid of my smaller debts.
The best offer i have received lately was 3.99 percent for 6 months.  If nothing [...]

Tracking Finances with Excel Spreadsheets

Now that I have gotten very serious about debt reduction, I am constantly making or updating Excel spreadsheets.  I have one that shows every bill for the month sorted by the due date.  I have the columns labeled: Date, Who Owed, Amount Due, Amount Left To Pay, Comments,  and then the dates of the 4 [...]

Maxed Out Documentary

After cancelling HBO from my satellite package in an effort to save money, my wife was constantly wanting to order pay-per-view movies.  It’d be cheaper to keep the HBO.  The compromise was to get a Netflix subscription, so we could get a couple movies each week.
Netflix also has a lot of movies you can watch [...]

Another Busy Week…. A Recap

Well, this has been a busy week and I’ve had very little time to blog about any of it. Here are some of the things that have been going on.

Worked the usual 40 hour week. Would love to have a few extra hours to get more money to throw at the debt, but when you [...]

Broken Video Games!

It looks like I’ll have an unexpected expense to pay soon.
My daughter’s Playstation 3 video game console seems to have died!  I think it came with a one year warranty and as a 2007 Christmas present, it’s 13 months old, so if we can get it fixed I’m sure I’ll have to pay for it.  [...]