Archive for the ‘Our Debt Payoff Progress’ Category

My New Year’s Wish for You…

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Happy 2008! I wish for everyone a debt-free year! Whether you achieve the debt-free goal or just get closer to it I wish you well.   I’m back from our vacation/house-hunting trip to California and enjoying the last day at home with the kids before they head back to school tomorrow. We spent two ...

Our 2008 Financial Goals (and win yourself an IPOD!)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

This is my 11th hour entry into a giveaway held at Cash Money Life for an IPOD Nano. To enter you must blog about your 2008 Financial Resolution using the SMART format. I know, why did I wait until the last minute? Partly because I was procrastinating, and mostly because ...

Crossing the Half-Way Point

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Yesterday I updated our total for the amount of debt we have left to pay and was surprised to see that we have paid off 50% of the debt we started with! We started with $58,345.16 of debt 8 months ago and now have $29,113.16 left to pay. This ...

How Ironic. Do You Ever Feel This Way?

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I was just taking a peek at my blog stats before I went to sleep and saw that someone Googled "staying motivated to get out of debt" and the search results returned Working For Financial Freedom. Of all days I find it ironic that someone would visit my blog today ...

Debt Payoff Progress 11/10/07 - Happy Birthday Marines!

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Made a small payment towards the debt today, $4.63 from Half.com. I listed some book on Amazon, Ebay and Half.com. Slowly but surely the books have been selling and the payments trickling in. Yesterday was a great mail day as $26.55 in rebate checks came in. :) Every little bit helps. The outgo ...