http://www.debtstupid.com/blog Blogging Away Debt Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:39:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slowly but surely. That's how this is going down. This month I managed to only bring down my debt by $266.19. This is due to my declining income this month and the high interested rate credit cards. I have two of those right now. But I will not for much longer. ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/07/17/slowly-but-surely/ Living frugally where I live? No chance! This month our electric bill will go up another 22% (I could be off by +/-1%). Small businesses here are caving under the sheer pressure of this economic gloom and the local politicians are inept and corrupt to be able to help. They are ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/06/20/frugal-living/ This month I knocked off $522.34, peanuts, but hey it slow going from here on. My total debt still hovers over $18,000.00. Wish I could dump more on this debt. I don't have much to post about, it's been a quite month for me as far as keeping my spending down. But I ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/06/18/my-debt-progress-2/ This month I knocked off $1036.28 from all my credit card debt. Since I started this blog I have knocked off a total of $1,860.12 from my total credit card debt. Not bad, considering that I actually used them again. But, life always gets in the way, doesn't it? I am going ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/05/19/my-debt-progress/ Do I dare hope that this time the Feds are actually moving to help the citizens of this nation with real action, instead of pandering, that will help most of us working peons from being abused to no end by the predatory credit card issuers? The industry is already in full ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/05/02/do-i-dare-hope/ I really have nothing worthwhile to report about my debt. I have been keeping busy working and promoting my online websites. I have decided to crank up my promotion of my other websites, they do make some money. I think I should promote them more and bring in the traffic to ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/04/23/busy-working-promoting/ The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision is crafting rules to protect consumers from abusive credit card practices: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision is crafting rules to protect consumers from abusive credit card practices such as retroactive rate increases, the agency's deputy director told lawmakers on Thursday (April ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/04/17/government-to-curb-credit-card-abuses/ I feel better about my debt now. I am not using my credit cards to get by. This is got to be one of the worst places to be in life. Borrowing to eat and be able to get to work? US deep in debt and still digging All the numbers say ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/04/15/i-am-in-debt-but-not-like-this/ I just brought down my debt by another $400.00. Bad news, though. Looks like my investment money will not be returned to me as fast as I was led to believe. Complications are going to make that take quite a bit longer. In the meantime I will continue my small crawl ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/04/15/my-debt-down-another-400/ Hi guys, I found something interesting that could allow you to make some money. Especially if your into social networking on the Internet, or are even thinking of starting to use a social networking service. Yuwie is a social networking service with a twist. They actually pay you for your page views ... http://www.debtstupid.com/blog/2008/04/12/yuwie/