Posts Tagged ‘debt’

Welcome to the 107th Carnival of Debt Reduction. It is a great honor to be your host for this fine Carnival. Without further ado, let us take a tour of New York City.

The Statue of Liberty
…stands at Liberty Island, New York in New York Harbor…presented to the United States by France in 1886…made of sheeting [...]

My wife pregnancy is coming along well, except for occasional all-over-the-body-ache. While I was giving her a massage last night, I was able to go over another financial lesson with her. The second lesson was focused mainly on financial goals.

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Types of Financial Goals
There are many types of financial goals:

Pay off [...]

I have been giving this subject a lot of thought lately. After I read “Should Schools have Money Management Classes?,” an excellent post from Fortune Watch, I am finally going to write about this. As far as I can tell, there are two “real life” subjects being taught in high schools today: human [...]

In my post “My first credit card and the fallacies,” I mentioned the term financial imprisonment. It is the opposite of financial independence, and I defined it as the state of having to work for money, living from paycheck to paycheck, and never having enough.

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So, how can one become financially imprisoned? [...]

I applied to medical school in 1995, but I did not get accepted — so the more accurate question is “what if I got into a medical school?” What led me to this? I was reading Mighty Bargain Hunter’s post about how much a lady owed to get her medical degree. To [...]

Yesterday, I read “Good Debt?? There is No Such Thing” on Gather Little By Little. First, let me say that I consider Glblguy a friend and a very respectable blogger; but when I read the title I thought what the heck is he talking about? This prompted me to read the rest [...]

Sometimes when you are in really deep, everything you want to accomplish seems so monumental that you give up before you even begin. I came across Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps and liked the sound of it. So, I imagined myself working with someone in a bad financial situation, and here are [...]

Trying to build wealth while you are in debt is like running on a treadmill. At best, you will get a good exercise running to nowhere. At worst, you might fall off and hurt yourself. In this round up, I search through the personal finance Blogosphere and found some great posts about dealing with debt.

Zen [...]

This blog is officially 2 weeks old, and I came across many interesting people, blogs, and posts. Here are this week highlights:
The Dough Roller shares his 10 Things I Now Know at 40 That I Wish I Knew at 20 — a great read for younger folks. I committed a few of these [...]

I have been reading a lot lately trying to bring myself back up to speed about personal finance matters. In the past two weeks, I came across a lot of good resources. Since I am having a serious case of writer block today, I will just share links to 10 of [...]