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I don’t normally write about other people’s posts, but I stumbled on one today from Plonkee Money about supercharging your debt snowball that I just had to mention, and make note of so I can do it myself.
The problem:  4 gazillion ways to do the debt snowball.  All having their benefits in one form or […]

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Well, it’s that time of month again… No more paychecks due for the month, and all bills have been paid, so it’s time to see how I’m stacking up with all the things I’m talking about. So without further ado, here they are:

As you can see, once again another near 4% reduction with $1855 […]

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It has been one helluva busy week. With the kids spending time with relatives from out of state, I have a lot of free time. Of course, that free time gets eaten up at work by a project that is wrapping up and all of a sudden I find myself neglecting this place…
However, […]

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I said yesterday I would go ahead and update you with the numbers, and here they are. I know it’s not the end of March yet, but it is the end of the paychecks that I will get in March. I know there are small amounts of cash coming in before the end […]

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In honor of prying myself away from the death grips of CapitalOne this month*, I have written a tribute. Want to hear it? Here it goes…
An Ode To CapitalOne – From Mike
You were my first, yes I admit it is true,
to give me the funding, to do what I do,
Though I had no […]

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First, a quick background on me…
When I was a kid, I tended to migrate to “that” side of the tracks. You know, the kids who smoked outside the school, wearing the long black trenchcoats. Never shaved, looked like the scum of the earth, the kid you didn’t want your kids to be hanging […]

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I was doing some checks today, and interesting enough, I found that it would probably be better NOT to pay down the mortgage early, but rather save up to pay off the mortgage completely, or not pay it off early at all.
For example:
$200,000 mortgage, at 6.5% for 30 years, the monthly mortgage payment is $1264.14 […]

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