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Financial Goals 2012

January 4, 2012

Since it’s the first week of 2012, I figured that I’d share my goals for 2012 with all of you.  I don’t list every goal in every category, but I do put the ones that I feel relate to the things we talk about on the blog. At the beginning of every year for about [...]

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Year In Review

December 30, 2011

There are only a few days left in 2011, and it was quite the year for me.  I did a lot of traveling, did a lot of writing, lots of interaction with the yakezie and even my first blog conference.  I’d like to go back and look at how I started the year and how [...]

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Year End Goals Review

December 21, 2011

It’s getting towards the end of the year, and it’s a great time to review the goals that I had for the year and how I fared with them.  I put some of my goals up on the site, and you can find them here.  I’ve also been doing some quarterly updates that you can [...]

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Homemade Personal Christmas Gifts

December 20, 2011

Last month, I was looking for some cost effective ways to get gifts for all of the people on my Christmas list.  I like to think I’m a pretty crafty person, so  I started looking for something that was simple to make but also had a nice personal touch.  I was able to find the [...]

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Should you consolidate debt?

December 19, 2011

Last week,  I wrote about my monthly nut, and how i’ve been able to go from 7 debt based obligations to just 2 now.  It was tough doing all of that debt paying down instead of doing fun that I would rather have done instead, I realized how close to the edge that I really [...]

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Where I Get the Most Value

December 16, 2011

This is a guest post from Eric at Narrow Bridge Finance as part of the Yakezie Blog Swap. This week, we all answered the question “What do you spend money on that gives you the most value?” You can see my post on the same topic at Eric’s Blog. You can find an endless supply [...]

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Goal-O-Matic

December 14, 2011

In october 2010 after I’d finally gotten out from under my credit cards, H  and I quietly started a small savings account with ING for the purpose of saving for a home purchase.  We each put our names on the account and simply set up automatic deposits from our regular checking accounts.  At the end [...]

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The Monthly Nut

December 9, 2011

I’ve been thinking about this post for a while after I noticed last week that I now only have two mandatory debt payments every month, down from a high of 7.  While I didnt have a creative name for this, a comment from another yakezie member/future world ruler/all around hysterical guy was left on my monthly review [...]

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Book Review: Shiny Objects

December 6, 2011

A while back, I was asked to review a copy of the book Shiny Objects, by James Roberts  - I jumped at the chance because this is about happiness and overspending, and today is my day to host the book tour for the book. Shiny Objects In this chapter, the author talks about how many [...]

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November Monthly Review

December 2, 2011

Most of you remember my saga with direct loans.   To end it, I finally had to have the bank pull back the funds over a month after it had cleared the account and still had not posted to the website (nor could they even find it).  I went to pay it all on line [...]

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