Debt Reduction

November 26 – Baby Step 2 Update

November 26, 2010

It’s that time again – time to update our progress towards completing Dave Ramsey’s Baby Step 2. Today is Black Friday but for us, it was bonus and commission day. So while 138 million Americans are out shopping, I paid off two more accounts! We are down to four active accounts now. In our previous [...]

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Looking Back: My Financial Goals for 2010

November 19, 2010

At the beginning of the year, when I launched my Six Figures and Broke blog, I wrote a post detailing My Financial Goals for 2010. Now that we’re coming up on the holiday season and the New Year is right around the corner, I figured it would be a good time to look at the [...]

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Paying Off Debt is Always a Good Thing

November 5, 2010

This week has been quite adventurous for my Six Figures and Broke blog. I received a mention on The Consumerist website and immediately my blog went offline due to a sudden surge of traffic. Thankfully, I added a caching feature and my hosting provider was fantastic and it quickly came back online and has remained [...]

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What We Are Doing to Get Out of Debt

November 4, 2010

After reading the comments on the Consumerist.com article yesterday, I realized that I’m just telling you how much debt we’ve paid off in my monthly update but not really talking about what we are doing to get out of debt. Today, I’m going to rectify that. First and foremost we are trying to follow Dave [...]

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Holy Traffic Surge Batman! – The Consumerist

November 3, 2010

So this afternoon I received a note from my web hosting company announcing that a surge in traffic caused server problems and they disabled my blog. Surely they must be mistaken for this is simply a little blog with maybe 100 page views a day. Imagine my surprise when I load up my Google Analytics [...]

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October 29 – Baby Step 2 Update

October 29, 2010

It’s the end of October and time for another Baby Step 2 Update. Although I posted earlier this month that our debt snowball would slow down a little while we’re saving up $7,500, I was still a bit discouraged to see the slow down in print. However, we’re making great progress on the $7,500. As [...]

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