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May is going to be a debt-smashing month!

Consumerist.com posted the IRS’ schedule for tax refunds. It goes a little something like this:

Now if you notice, you’re getting your “rebate” check based on the last 2 digits of your social security number, and whether or not you had direct deposit or not. So, my last two being 58, and I did […]

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Getting the books straight with PaperBackSwap

Today I decided to go ahead and get my paper back books in order to go ahead and get them sold. Though, when I went to the “bulk resale” site that I had planned to use, I realized that many of them weren’t worth anything, and several of my books they wouldn’t take at […]

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Make Ramsey your own

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Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz around the pf blogosphere regarding Dave Ramsey, the infamous Christian money coach and counselor, and author of such great works as Financial Peace University and Total Money Makeover. Recently, several bloggers […]

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You want to be debt free? Change your mind…

Over the past few weeks where I’ve pretty much spent every waking hour thinking, eating, sleeping, and breathing my debt reduction plan, one thing started poking it’s head out over and over and over again. One part of everything I think about is becoming very obvious, and very clearly is turning out to be […]

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7 things I’m learning to love about the frugal life

1. I spend more time with my girls - Things that I thought were “entertainment” for me and the girls weren’t really, it was never family time. We’d watch a movie, and not interact with each other, or we’d go to the inflatable place (a bunch of inflatable bouncy things under one roof) and […]

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Escrow account refund? Heck ya!

I got a check in the mail today, thought it looked fake until I read over it… It was a $561.62 escrow refund check, and a notice that my monthly house payments were going down, too!  Heck ya!
And as everyone knows, you take a nice mini-windfall like that and go spend a little for yourself, […]

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Job hunt’s not going so well…

I’ve been trying to find a part time job lately.  I don’t want to deliver pizzas (too much stress on the car) but other than that, I’m cool with flipping burgers, renting out videos, cooking pizzas, etc.
The biggest issue I’m running up against is my availability.  Due to the custody arrangement (and how I want […]

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