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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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Lately it’s been work, work, work. 16-hour days aren’t natural, but unfortunately happen during release periods at most software development houses. During these times in previous years, the girls usually go with their mom more, allowing me to fulfill my bread-winning duties and show more face time at work, but this year has […]

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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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Pedal down, on ramp, trigger pulled, I read “P-O-L-I-C-E”, foot hits brake…
but not fast enough.
My first “emergency” attack on my tight and aggressive budget would come, sure enough, from my own stupidity. Coming back from picking up the girls this weekend, getting on the interstate, I let the Charger get away from me […]

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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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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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Okay, quick update.
Smoking - Eh. I’ve managed to successfully not smoke at work for several days now. But when I get home, it’s still a problem. I’m working on it. I did take 21st Century Dad’s advice on cutting down on the caffeine, although it didn’t help much tonight. I […]

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