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Refinancing for the New Year

January 14, 2010

photo credit: bloomsberries It’s a New Year, and at this time of year many people are thinking about ways to save more money this year. You may be tempted to slash your grocery budget by only cooking at home, or cut back on monthly expenses like car insurance. If you haven’t tackled your biggest expenses [...]

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young entrepreneurs or how I’m $40 poorer

December 21, 2009

The scene: my house. The problem: our car was buried under 16 inches of snow. The undesirable solution: spend all day taking turns with my hubby, and likely being  unable to move today, shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. The opportunity: 2 teenagers ran our bell and asked if we wanted them to shovel our walk, [...]

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the one car experiment

August 12, 2009

I almost fell over last week when my husband uttered these words: “I think we should go to one car for a year.”

I knew he was committed to paying off debt, like me, and that he was willing to try going to one car, but a year?! That was way more than I hoped for.

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our car is dead

July 31, 2009

Our car was pronounced DOA today. Now we’re trying to figure out what to do next.

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how do you stay focused?

June 4, 2009

If you’re new here, welcome! Please stop by my About Me page, my Media page, and consider subscribing to my RSS feed. You can also follow me on twitter. Sometimes it feels like we’ll never be debt-free. I’m having one of those weeks where I can see the path ahead, and I’m tired of walking [...]

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Increasing Energy Prices? Peco offers a solution.

May 12, 2009

If you are like me you rarely look at the inserts included with most of your bills, but for some reason I took note of the insert that Peco recently sent us with our most recent statement.

The letter states that energy prices will be increasing in 2011 due to the end of rate caps, and they are offering a solution to help ease the transition.

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