debt snowball tag

April 25th 2008
Tags: Finances, debt, debt snowball

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Step 0, done

Thanks to my NC and federal tax returns, I am now current on all credit cards and ready to "snowflake" my way to a starter emergency fund (with the help of my IN tax return and the economic stimulus check, yes). In the process, I paid off what remained of my ...

April 21st 2008
Tags: Finances, On Life and Love, debt, debt snowball, economic stimulus, tax refund

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On tax returns and economic stimuli

So, as I've made clear in the past, I've decided to take on my debt full-tilt using ideas from Dave Ramsey's books and various financial blogs I read. My budgeting earlier this year was skewed by irregular income for a couple of months, courtesy of leaving teaching, having unemployed time, then ...

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August 27th 2010
Tags: Site updates, Techiness, code, google, programming, sitemaps, webdev No Comments

Search-building: custom or Google

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Chapter 10 of Witches posted!

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