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3 Situations When It Is Okay To Take on Debt
As a personal finance blogger, I will be the first to admit that debt equals bad. While mostly that’s the case, there are a few scenarios in which it may be necessary to take on. In fact, having some...
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What Does Payday Mean to You?
Making more money, saving on expenses, and getting family finances under control. There are many ways to measure our time on this planet: year by year, month by month, iPhone by iPhone. For many...
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Getting Real About Getting Out of Debt
This post is part of the 2015 Financial Literacy Awareness Carnival, hosted by our friends at “The Heavy Purse”. It is very common for people that are carrying consumer debt to dream of one day...
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Expenses Are Piling Up.. Trouble On the Horizon?
Sometimes it all hits at once. It is in these times that we have to be steadfast in our dedication to financial sanity, and we have to be willing to adjust our habits and make sacrifices. The last...
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Talk Money with Your Honey: How Getting on the Same Page Financially Can...
My husband and I just celebrated our four year anniversary this past May. And while no relationship is perfect (or even close to it), one of the things my husband and I seemed to have nailed is our...
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Five Ways to Drastically Improve Your Cash Flow Today
When you make the commitment to get control of your finances, one of the first things that you have to do is to take a no-holds-barred look at your budget. When we did this, we found that we had so...
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What Would You Do If You Didn’t Have Debt?
See Debt Run is all about finding ways to pay off your debt, whether that’s by living more frugally or earning more money. It can be difficult, however, to stay on track and focused on your goal,...
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A Dusty Guitar
Ever since I was 10 years old, I have had an obsession with music and the people that create it. What young boy in America doesn’t grow up with dreams of one day being a rock star? But my passion...
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Signs Your Debt is Stressing You Out and Ways to Resolve it
Dealing with debt is never fun. Essentially it is dealing with the fact that you owe someone money. In many cases, the money you owe is not something you can easily afford to pay back. Whether your...
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House Hunting Dealbreakers
via ListingBook One of my wife ‘s favorite channels is HGTV, and it seems like they are always airing a show called “House Hunters”. In this show, a couple tours three different homes, talks about the...
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Tomorrow
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” -Benjamin Franklin Back when we were buried deep in debt, people would often ask us why we waited so long to start getting our finances in...
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Taking the First Step Towards Debt Freedom
It wasn’t all that long ago that Michelle and I had over twenty thousand dollars in credit card debt. During the years that we lived in that reality, I did my best to pretend like the debt wasn’t...
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The Tortoise and the Hare
What a long and strange trip it has been, friends. In January of 2012, we were living paycheck to paycheck, stuck in a cycle where the majority of our paychecks were being eaten by our debt...
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Ignore the Experts, Stop Using Cash!
A popular debt reduction strategy that is often repeated by the finance celebrities involves putting away the plastic and starting to pay for EVERYTHING with cash. This thought is parroted by...
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Should You Stop 401K Contributions While Paying Off Debt
Paying off debt is never an easy undertaking. It takes patience, dedication, and sometimes it forces you to make some difficult choices. One of the toughest decisions when developing a debt payoff...
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What Does Payday Mean to You?
Making more money, saving on expenses, and getting family finances under control. There are many ways to measure our time on this planet: year by year, month by month, iPhone by iPhone. For many...
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Teaching Kids About Money
I remember the day that I realized that I needed to make it a bigger priority to teach my kids about money. I was at the local electronics store playing with the iPads with my ten year old son. “Dad,...
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Habit Creep
The other day, I was browsing one of the fine blogs listed on the right of this page, and they mentioned Dave Ramsey and how his book had a huge impact on their financial habits. Don’t worry, this...
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Shortcuts to Financial Freedom
There is no doubt that our push towards financial freedom has been a loooong and sloooow churn. It is funny how our debt can seem to accumulate so quickly when our broken appliances needed to be...
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How to Stop Biting Your Nails
My name is Jefferson, and I am a nail biter. Gross, I know. Seriously, I can’t remember the last time that I had to clip my fingernails, going all the way back to my childhood. I don’t know why I have...
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