A few weeks ago I was getting ready for bed when I heard a ridiculous noise coming from my garage – POP, BOING, BANG, CRASH – I have no idea how to describe it in any other way 🙂 “WTF was that.. I thought to myself..,” so I… very hesitantly… went to check it out. I…
Isn’t it interesting how you can get so excited about a new project, but then once you’re halfway through you want to move onto something else? Isn’t it interesting how you can set a massive list of goals to have your best year ever, but not accomplish a single one of them? What’s up with…
What the Black Friday weekend does to people is absolutely insane. It’s human irrationality at it’s best, and retailers have figured out all of the right buttons to push to make it happen. I know I’m not going to keep you from buying stuff. There are just too many forces working against you, but what…
When it comes to vehicles, since I’m a frugal upper middle class white dude in his 30s, clearly I favor the superior reliability of Hondas, Mazdas, and the other Japanese made vehicles. Recently my wife and I bought a Honda Crosstour (aka Totesmagotes – I’ll let you figure out why), which should be paid off…
Even though I’m now a bit of city slicker, that wasn’t always the case. I grew up in a small farm town in southern Indiana called Lanesville. There were literally no stoplights, no buildings over two stories, and you could run through the entire downtown end to end in about 8 minutes. My graduating class…
In the last ten years I’ve gone from a having no idea what I wanted to do, to a trusted project manager in charge of the productivity of over a dozen people, and a leader of the web operations of one of the largest global electronics companies in the world. I don’t say this to…
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As my new friend Arina Nikitina tweeted me after the previous article on optimizing spending, making more money is absolutely key to paying of your debt quicker. If all you ever do is cut back on your expenses, you’ll be on that hamster wheel your entire life. Spend money, cut back. Spend money, cut back….
A couple of days ago, we took a dive into debt, when it’s OK, when it’s not, and how to begin eliminating it. You also used my Debt Payoff Calculator to figure out how much you need to pay per month in order to eliminate your debt within your goal. If you haven’t figured that…
Getting out of debt doesn’t have to be complicated. It doesn’t require any super special tricks, complex consolidation practices, confusing spreadsheets, or anything else that might make you want to pull your hair out. If you want to crush your debt, it just comes down to a few key principles that I want to go…