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Putting our Financial House in Order - A Roadmap to a Better Financial Future. |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 8:05 am |
| Tags: saving money, link ins, enterprising people, saving, debt, credit cards, goals, budgeting |
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This is a guest post from Jamie over at PaidTwice. She has some good things to say in this article, I suggest you take some notes :) In case you were wondering, I’m at historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI. I’ve been thinking and talking about getting out of debt for a long time. Especially about getting out of the credit card debt we’d accumulated during my husband’s layoff. When our second child was born last October I got to a point where I realized that if we weren’t paying out so much of our take home pay to our debtload, life could be significantly better. We pay over $700 in minimum payments to debt each month (not including our mortgage) and ~$120 of those minimums were to our credit card. I knew that the credit card was not the only debt we needed to address. Instead of floating along and just doing what we needed to do to get by, I needed to take charge of our finances in a more significant way. I knew that our income [ Full article ] |
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