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- A Coupon For Everything
I?m not a serious couponer. Not in the traditional buy-two-Sunday-newspapers and clip carefully way. However, I have trained myself to shop with a plan, and look for a coupon?especially when it isn’t a traditional coupon item. Recently my little car, with 135,000 miles on it needed an oil change, transmission flush, and serpentine belt. I [...]
- Cutting The Cord
I had quite a learning experience this summer. Perhaps more than I really want to admit in such a public forum. But hey, humility is part of this journey to debt-freedom, right? In an effort to engage my oldest daughter (she?ll be 12 next month) to use math in real-life ways this summer, I asked [...]
- My Short Sale: The Best Advice I Never Took
By Nolan There?s a lot of advice about short sales floating around out there. And much of it is valid. Because the phenomena of the short sale is relatively new, which means it hasn?t bottomed out, there are no established standards or even consistent expectations. The only sure thing is that it won?t be easy, [...]
- Saving Money with DIY Legal Work
Disclaimer: not legal advice, just money-saving advice. Did you know that it?s possible to do many basic legal tasks without the help of an attorney in many states? We recently completed our daughter?s re-adoption, pro se (a Latin term meaning ?done myself? or something like that). Estimates to hire an attorney to do this ranged [...]
- Jessica?s August 2010 Update + Mistakes!
For shame. This is bad. As I mentioned in my previous post, we?ve had medical problems and some colossal medical bills coming in as a result?about $1500 so for for my daughter and I, and loss of income, about $4000 due to illness, I feel like we?ve crashed and burned. We have a monthly goal [...]
- Medical Bills Hurt
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. That?s about all I can say. I?ve been absent here at DebtKid for a while. The story begins this way?perhaps as a result of an old injury, or lifting something, I managed to somehow critically damage a disk in my back. If you?ve never experienced it before, it is perhaps the most [...]
- Frugal Hobby Ideas
First off…marriage is awesome. I love living with my wife, and we are a fantastic team. But marriage has brought me that I wasn’t expecting: more time. Before I got hitched I would always have to drive home somewhere in the evening, and so most often our nights ended around 9pm or earlier. Now living [...]
- Are High Yield Savings Accounts Dead For Good?
A while back I did a post about the death of the “high yield savings account“. Now, over a year later, rates are only lower. Yep, the days of a 4-5% yield for an online savings account are gone. But will they ever return? Not any time soon, say most economists. 2010 has been a [...]
- How Open Are You About Your Debt?
The past few years, with “this economy” and all, have given rise to more and more talk about a formally very taboo topic: Money. But, what still seems pretty taboo, at least in my social circle, is talk about debt. Student loans are a common gripe from 20-somethings my age, but beyond that, I’ve never [...]
- Should You Ever Buy A New Car?
A friend of mine was considering buying a used luxury vehicle (3-4 years old), and while it’s not a car I would ever buy, it fits his personality. However, he is thinking of now buying new because, “The interest rate on a new car is a lot lower, 1.9% vs 4 or 5%” Now, my [...]
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