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 [...]
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, [...]
I’ve posted before that I’m setting my debts up as a debt snowball. The typical debt snowball is to pay the debts from smallest first to largest last. I did this, but then moved a card to the top because it is a one-year-same-as-cash debt. If we can pay it off by July, then we [...]
My Discover pays me a small percentage of cash back from each purchase. Once that total adds up to $20.00, I can redeem it for cash, gift cards from various businesses or apply it back to my account.
I recently used my card to take advantage of an offer at the mall, that I’ve written a [...]
(Revised 1/18/09)
This is my second attempt at the debt snowball. After posting the first one, I realized I left off a couple accounts by accident and I left the car loan off deliberately, since I was originally only going to focus on credit card debt. I also left off my wife’s medical bill and my [...]
