Get a second job? Euww! Are you kidding me?
What’s the difference between the rich and the poor? Don’t know? Perhaps you should read some personal finance books. I have read quite a few and they expound the same advice—make money work for you.
That’s right, make money work for you instead of the other way around. [...]
The good news:
This is my first report on the status of my debt and net worth since I started my debt blog. The good news is that because of my recent investment my net worth improved by $846.41 down to minus $17,096.00.
The bad news:
Because I didn’t pay one of my credit cards this month, due to [...]
I recently finished reading Empire of Debt by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin.
I enjoyed this read, not only because of all the history, but because it was an easy read for me. This book will not put you to sleep with a lot of technical statistics, and pie/bar chart data. It really speaks to a [...]
The investment I will make soon will hurt next month’s repayment schedule, too. It looks like I will not be able to throw the $1,000 I budgeted towards paying down my debt next month either, it will be less, a little over the minimum.
The month of August can’t arrive soon enough for me. I need [...]
John Chow dot Com, a blog that helps you make money is giving away a 24″ wide screen LCD monitor! To enter, you just have to write about it.
The monitor is a 24″ wide screen LCD from LG Electronics. The L245WP is the latest in a string of award winning monitors from LG. The wide screen [...]
Well, I am still waiting to make another move towards improving both my networth and my debt. In the mean time, I keep on living…
One of the rules I gave myself when I made the decision to blog about my finances was to try and remain as anonymous as I possibly could. One [...]
I am playing a waiting game right now, so there is not much for me to report. Been busy as well, which is good.
As I posted before, I am working on another investment and bringing my networth up a bit. I am actually using these investments to help me pay down my debt, [...]
There’s a flood of foreclosures coming — about 1.1 million!
According to the article:
You have a 1-in-3 chance of losing your house to foreclosure if you got an adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM, in 2004 through 2006 that had an initial teaser rate of less than 4%.
If you got a subprime ARM in that period, you started [...]
I have to alter my plans for this month as I will be using some money to invest. The money that I make from the investment will help me a lot more in the next few months than just dumping it all into my credit card. So I will not be making a payment in the [...]
Hi all,
This is a quick post that I am writing using the new Windows Live Writer from Microsoft.
I installed it with some trepidation as this beta 2 software has two major flaws.
Problem 1: Writer Installation Fails
Symptoms
When trying to install Writer, the installation silently fails and does not complete or appears to take a very long [...]
