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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 ...

Don’t Rely on Your Scrapbooking Stash to Fix Your Truck

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

So, my sweet, handy husband fixed the power window in our truck a month ago. It worked great and saved us over $262. Cost to us? Nothing. Last Friday he drove over to the local Ford Dealer's parts department to pick up a part for our other truck. While in the PARKING ...

Procrastination Is Expensive

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Procrastination is a bad habit, and one that I sadly have struggled with for awhile now. (Yes, I was one of those who would wake up at "0 dark:30" the morning of the day that a high school term paper was due, madly write it, turn it in and get ...

Bringing the Debt Snowball to a Halt

Monday, October 29th, 2007

We've halted the snowball. We will continue to pay our regular car payments, but any extra money during the month of November and part of December will go towards the following: Fixing the Ranger so that it runs good, passes inspection & doesn't leak oil (hubby will fix this himself) Retaining wall ...

Debt Payoff Progress Update 10/19

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Well. We did it. Hey, where are the trumpets, cheering crowd and balloons & streamers? We paid off the VISA this morning. $0. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Now we have the cars to pay off, and it looks like we are going go take the plunge and sell the pony by Thanksgiving. ...