Carnival of Debt Reduction #76 – Free Debt Reduction Seminar
February 26, 2007
Welcome to the 76th Carnival of Debt Reduction. Hold onto your hair pieces, and get ready to do the happy dance! Pay close attention to the topics we’re about to cover and you too can celebrate like the guy in the video. This debt reduction seminar will cover the following topics: How to Get Out […]
Payback Time for Payday Loans – Share Your Story and win $50
February 23, 2007
Have you ever had to give 25% of your paycheck to a payday loan company because times were tight? If so, read on to find out how you can get some of that money back. Payday Loans I was recently contacted by a payday loan company and offered $50 for mentioning them in a post. […]
National Debt – One Issue, Two Perspectives
February 14, 2007
How can we expect the government to be financially responsible if we can’t even stay out of debt ourselves? That’s the question I asked yesterday in a guest post over at Blogging Away Debt. A interesting comment on the article from Kevin Morris discusses how government debt is okay as long as tax revenue continues […]
Family’s Will Suffer, Mortgage Lenders & Investors Will Profit
January 31, 2007
Robert Reich reported on Marketplace today that home foreclosures were up 42% last year resulting in over a million families losing their homes. Many of these people had signed up for adjustable-rate mortgages or interest-only loans with no down payments and sometimes 100% financing. Rough Times Ahead The bad news for families that borrowed with […]
Get Out of Debt and Sink the Economy?
January 26, 2007
During a recent late night visit to the store I had a “deep thought” as I walked down aisles full of stuff and void of people. What would happen if the store was this empty all the time? If people stopped buying all this stuff what would happen to our economy? No More Stuff! In […]
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Credit Card Alerts
December 15, 2006
How do you remember to pay your credit card bills? Some credit card companies have a service that alerts you to key events in the cycle of your credit card bill. I use these alerts for one of my credit cards and have had mixed results. The Good The best alerts come 7 days before […]
Patching the Crack in Our Monthly Budget
December 10, 2006
Two things cracked on the way home from the store last night, our windshield, and with it, our monthly budget. The Costly Crack I sighed after my wife pointed out the crack. “That’s going to cost a few hundred to fix, just don’t buy me anything for Christmas”, I said. “What?!”, she exclaimed. “I’ve already […]
Turning Credit into Cash Instead of Debt
December 6, 2006
What if we used credit only for growth and not consumption? Professor Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, shows us a whole new meaning behind the concept of credit. When Yunus saw a way to make a difference by giving out tiny “microcredit” loans to the poor in Bangladesh the Grameen […]
Carnival of Debt Reduction #64
December 4, 2006
The Carnival of Debt Reduction #64 is up and running over at Necessary Virtues. Credit cards have brought some positives and many negatives to the world of personal debt. I ask the question, What Was The World Like Before Credit Cards? The Simple Dollar puts things into perspective for me with his entry Nourishment on […]
Shopping Your Way Out of Debt
December 1, 2006
Do you have trouble reducing your debt because you love to shop? If so, this article may be for you! We all love a little friendly competition. Below are the rules for a shopping game that will help you spend less money as you shop and give you more money to pay off debt! Players: […]
