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[21 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

I was going over my expenses and found a way to save $250 each month. I have a second mortgage on my rental property and I was paying $800 each month on this. I was looking at the bill and realized I was paying an extra $250 each month on it!
Looking back I think I setup automatic payments of $800 so I could pay down the loan faster. The loan is at a fixed 7% interest rate, while my credit card bills are at a %9 interest rate. I decided …

Budgeting »

[10 Apr 2008 | One Comment | ]

Have you ever noticed that the things you buy every week at the grocery and hardware stores go up a few cents between shopping trips? Not by much…just by a little each week but they continue to creep up and up.
All it takes for the price to jump up by a lot is a little hiccup in the world wide market, note the price of gasoline as it relates to world affairs.

Frugal living »

[9 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

On the 1st of April I told you about the new website that I launched. Themes that don’t suck
I have spent the last week trying to optimize the site for search engines and have spent time trying to create back links and drive traffic. Here’s what I’ve learned so far

Budgeting »

[7 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

A carpenter uses a set of house plans to build a house. If he didn’t the bathroom might get overlooked altogether.
Rocket Scientists would never begin construction on a new booster rocket without a detailed set of design specifications. Yet most of us go blindly out into the world without an inkling of an idea about finances and without any plan at all.
Not very smart of us, is it?