Debt

  Staying Motivated to Pay Off Debt This update won’t be nearly as interesting, controversial or fun as my last debt update was. But when you pay off debt, there are peaks and valleys. High points and low points. This progress report floats along somewhere in the middle. There were no windfalls, tax refunds or bonuses. No over the top expenses, medical or vet bills (thank goodness!) And no huge progress made in terms of debt payoff — unfortunately. The last two months were kind of ho-hum, business as usual. But at least we were able to keep on truckin’. …

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  Debt Update – 6 Months into Repayment Well hello there — Fancy meeting you here, on my Debt Update page. What have I been up to? Well, as you might have noticed, my last Debt progress report was quite some time ago. Yup. The ball was essentially dropped. Several of them, actually. While I’ve been floundering around in non-blogging land, the rest of the world has been turning. Time has passed me by while I’ve been Pinning, Tweeting, Facebooking (is that a verb?), and doing other less-than-strategic activities in order to avoid actual writing. But then a sweet and wonderful …

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  Dealing with Credit Card Debt Here we go — Round Two of this Credit Card Debt Repayment Journey — Last month I started documenting my progress toward paying off the credit card debt we’ve accumulated over the past couple of years. The point was to understand exactly where our debt is, and gain structure around what we can pay off each month. While it hasn’t been an exact science, at least it has been a starting point. And then there’s the whole accountability thing. If I’m putting this all out there for the world to see (albeit anonymously), at least …

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