Debt Crunch – Frugal Living is the Way to Build Wealth
By debtcrun
Frugal Living Is The Way To Build Wealth! Frugal living and building wealth go hand in hand. Saving small amounts really adds up to build your wealth.
There are three things that my grandma always told me:
1) Always treat others as you would want to be treated
2) Live your life the best way you can
3) [...]
Money and Women Notes – How to Grow Your Own Money Tree
By debtcrun
How to Grow Your Very Own Money Tree – Okay. So money doesn’t really grow on trees. Unless you plant your own Mighty Money Tree, that is!
Imagine that only a few moments ago you planted a young sapling in your back yard. You gave it just enough water to ensure a good start. Not [...]
Debt Free is the Goal But Dental Work Gets in the Way
By debtcrun
Debt Crunch Notes – I’m not very far into my “debt free” journey when I’ve hit another money glitch. Dental Work. I’m learning the hard way that putting of simple maintenance things like visits to the dentist cost more in the long run. A few weeks ago I realized that I was paying for [...]
Money, Cars and Loans – Learning How to Pay Cash for Cars
By debtcrun
Trent at The Simple Dollar offers up a new post on how to transition from staying in debt with car loans to paying cash for your next car. His post is straight forward and easy put into practice once we understand it works -
I’m learning that a great deal of our money issues and [...]
Debt Free Living – Turn Your Focus from THINGS to People
By debtcrun
Breaking Free From Debt – Debt-free living is such a key area of our lives that needs to be changed in America. The focus needs to be taken off of THINGS and put on PEOPLE … the time we spend shopping for stuff to fill our closets and cabinets could be and should be, [...]
Mortgage Debt to Income Ratio – A Rule of Thumb
By debtcrun
Mortgage Debt to Income Ratio – Ever ask yourself “How much house can I afford?” Just a word of warning – I am NOT a banker or financial analyst. I have owned a home. I found a way to get a mortgage that I truly could not afford. Finally, I signed my house over [...]
Debt Reduction – Don’t Make the Minimum Payments…Yet!
By debtcrun
Debt Reduction – When you hear that you should be doing baby step 1 -2 – 3 while making your “minimum” payments on your credit cards, loans – there is a critical point to remember. Pay Attention! When you see them lower your minimum monthly payment – IGNORE IT!
Over at Debt Be Gone – [...]
Get Organized – From my budget to my closets – No more Big Spender
By debtcrun
Getting a handle on more than money. Yesterday, the boys spend the day at their dad’s place and I cleaned. It’s been a rough week with the house being constantly wrecked when I got home from work and it was making me sooo cranky!
For inspiration, I cleaned in the morning listening to my [...]
Priorities and Paying Bills – What’s really important anyway?
By debtcrun
Between work and kids ~ I was on the road alot today. On I-95, driving meant talk radio which was the Mike Gallagher show without Mike (he’s supposed to be in Disney World or something) then Rush Limbaugh for one leg of driving I finally perked up when I got to listen to Dave [...]
07 Money and Debt – Building Your Emergency Fund – Every Dollar Has a Job
By debtcrun
While at Single Ma’s Fabulous Financials a reader shared this article in the middle of talking about building your emergency fund. It’s a great share. CNN Money has an online column called Millionaire in the Making – today’s article is about a 36 year old single mom on her own path to financial [...]
