Monday Morning Personal Finance News – 3/21/11

March 21, 2011

Happy Monday morning! This is my first Monday Morning Personal Finance News since completing Dave Ramsey’s Baby Step 2 – woo! Topics in this week’s post include dining on a dime, the need for disaster insurance and the continued rise of gas prices.

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We Did It – We’re Debt Free

March 18, 2011

As of today we have paid off over $70,000 in consumer debt. We started on this journey in January 2010 with $70,744.32 in debt and as of today, we are at $0. My original plan showed a pay off in 3rd quarter 2011 but due to hard work on our end, we were able to [...]

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600,000 New Millionaires Created in 2010

March 16, 2011

From time to time I will hear Dave Ramsey discuss the population of millionaires here in the United States. Most are made not born – in other words there are more first-generation millionaires here in the United States than there are those that were born into their fortunes. In 2010 alone, 600,000 new millionaires popped [...]

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Monday Morning Personal Finance News – 3/14/11

March 14, 2011

Happy Monday Morning. This week is Spring Break in the Six Figures and Broke household. My husband took the week off work and although I still have blogging to do for clients, I only need to put in about 10 hours of work this week. We’re spending Spring Break this year by staying local and [...]

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Monday Morning Personal Finance News – 3/7/11

March 7, 2011

Happy Monday Morning! This week’s Monday Morning Personal Finance News edition features 7 tax tips for your 2010 return, five luxury retirement communities and gas prices increased 33 cents in just two weeks! If you haven’t filed your 2010 taxes yet, check out these 7 tax tips for your 2010 return courtesy of SmartMoney.com If [...]

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March 1 – Baby Step 2 Update

March 1, 2011

I last updated our baby step two progress on February 11 because our debt broke the $10k mark – woo! At that point our remaining balance was $9,824.16 and we’d paid off 86.1% of our debt. We were close to our my 3/1 payoff goal of 88% and we still had my self-employment income and [...]

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