Sorry world. I got sort of side-swiped by financial craziness in 2008. Specifically, I spent the first half of the year trying to find a house to buy, because you know, interest rates have never been lower and now's the time to buy supposedly. After..
Topics: Miscellaneous

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Sorry everybody. I ended up taking a short five month break from the blog. As far as financial updates go.....I think I've finally reached a point of solvency. Maybe. At least I've managed to go a few weeks without going any further into debt....

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So the $17,000 in the old 401K just calls to me. It's telling me to cash it out and use it to pay off the $15,800 in credit card debt. And I really, really want to. But I won't. Although I must say I'm getting a little suspicious about all.
Topics: Miscellaneous

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Not a whole lot exciting happened in the past month, but I have less net worth due to the fact that my old 401K dropped a bit and I had to buy stuff and used up all my hard earned savings. Maybe July will be better. I don't know. I'm trying not...

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Sunday night I was playing on the computer and obsessing about money and I was reading some stuff about some legitimate work at home jobs you can do, but some places want you to create an S corporation so I went to the Kansas state web site and created...
Topics: Miscellaneous, Money Madness

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