81,312 Foreclosures in September. More Than Just a Number.
Well the September foreclosure figures are out from RealtyTrac ... to Read If You Live In The Real America, Be Patriotic. Go Shopping And Run Up Credit Card Debt ... foreclosures. Delinquent mortgages, like credit card defaults, do not have to turn into a financial train [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 18:12:09
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Money Match #5: Erin, Nashville Female Seeking Friends
It's been a while since we had any Money Match posts-- mainly because I totally flaked out and let a couple entries languish in the depths of my ... . This of course is my only form of debt, 54k in student loans. I have no credit card debt, no car payment, etc ... have me showing up on her front porch if I lived in Nashville! Email me at openwallet1 at [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 13:17:00
Falling Out Of A Bed That Gets Higher Every Day
The Herald Tribune reports from Florida. “Mark Brivik, a real estate investor who made a living buying, ... off her credit cards and ripped them up.” Still, even without credit card debt, Lesso is struggling ... for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Brivik distinguished himself from other investors during the past [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 14:34:43
Retirement Investing During Deflation
If a recession becomes severe, dollars may suffer from deflation rather than inflation ... by reducing payments or restructuring. As deflation sets in you’re paying off debt ... in value (real estate, stocks, etc). Most retirees have no job to lose. They’re living off Social [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:25:11
Forget the Cabbage Soup – 2009 Is Time For The Skinny Debt Diet
Each year, after the festive red and green envelopes in the mail have been replaced by thick white ones with the foreboding “Your Statement ... , and will continue after that with weekly update posts. We’ve created a Skinny Debt Dieters group ... reduction in 2009 and would also like some great advice for healthy living, this is the group [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:15:37
learning more about your financial position
My blogging buddy was telling me that her dream to eliminate her credit card debts are coming closer! This morning, she is due for a meeting with a credit card debt consultant to help her with her credit card consolidation plan. With rising cost of living and higher demands on family and personal [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 04:16:36
Social Mood Will Define The Future
Boomers have known only inflationary or reflationary conditions for most, if not all of their conscious lives ... For Bernanke.Greenspan had the wind of consumers' willingness and ability to go deeper in debt at his back [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:23:00
10 Steps To Escaping The Paycheck To Paycheck Cycle
For the first fifteen years of my adult life, I lived paycheck to paycheck ... , I realized that I was making enough money to begin my debt reduction. 4. I listed my creditors ... I’ve ever made was to fund this mini-emergency fund. Twice during my debt reduction process [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 12:30:30
Financial Resolutions for a new year...
A new year brings a whole bunch of 'new light' to our lives ... cleared up, consolidated and done with. It's not easy to get rid of debt, and it's not going ... who are in debt and trying to find a way around that with limited funds? Trying to find help [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 23:28:00
People Here Don’t Give A Crap What Kind Of Car We Drive.
And believe me, that is a welcome relief after living in Los Angeles for 13 years ... too much, and just charged myself into credit card debt - all to try to impress other people. I fell ... not afford and tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt…for nothing! What did I have to show [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 13:00:54
5 Common budgeting myths
My wife and I have been living on a budget for a little over two years now ... our accounts, we see our debt consistently going down, and our savings going up. The best part ... . To budget you need to know how to add, subtract and/or use a calculator. The most simple and easiest [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 10:10:18
5 Common budgeting myths
My wife and I have been living on a budget for a little over two years now ... our accounts, we see our debt consistently going down, and our savings going up. The best part ... To budget you need to know how to add, subtract and/or use a calculator. The most simple and easiest [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 10:10:18
Poverty - Φτώχεια - υπερβολή - εσύ πεινάς κι εγώ πετάω...
Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. ( ... annually, a figure that exceeds total aid flows and debt relief to the region in 2003.http [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 06:17:00
Late Night Political Humor
“All five living presidents met for a historic lunch at the White House this week ... The current national debt is estimated at over $10 trillion, which breaks down to about 35,000 dollars [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 11:55:10
Today I'm a Debbie Downer...
I try really hard to keep this blog light, humorous, and funny, but I'm just not feeling it today ... degree. I haven't climbed the career ladder. I've gained weight. I've gained debt. I don't ... I always wanted to do. While I love my husband, the problem with living the nomadic military [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 04:23:00
Today 100 Years Ago: Friday, Jan. 8, 1909
Today 100 Years Ago: Friday, Jan. 8, 1909 By William S ... There Have Decreased Since Consolidation; Debt Service Also Lower; Manhattan Pays $8,348,946 More Than ... Donates $200,000 for Relief — Living Still Found in Ruins — Treasure Also Recovered Verdict [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 05:01:46
Working From Home: Guaranteed Extra Cash Online
For college students and other people who feel burned out trying to balance paying the bills and living at the same time, ... t careful, you will end up working hard and falling further into debt than you can imagine. Much [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 22:15:37
Comcast asks Hurricane Ike victims to pay for lost cable boxes; company says letters sent in error
In Galveston, 81 customers of Comcast Corp., the cable TV company, ... the snafu on a Carrollton-based debt-collection agency. According to this story from The Daily News ... to rebuild their homes and their lives," said Comcast spokesman Michael Bybee. "We've asked the collection [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 19:16:07
How to Live on $6,500 a Year and Love It
Show of hands: how many of you dream about moving to the country, growing your own food and living off the grid? ... and comfortably on $6,500 a year. They started with the snowball approach to debt: they worked as hard as possible to eliminate all debt, one loan at a time. After that, they got creative with reducing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 11:00:34
Life After the Credit Depression
If you have any doubts about how historic these times are we live in, lay them aside for a moment. We’d ask you to lay your cares aside too ... public debt and funding the modern welfare/warfare state are reaching a breaking point ... in a three-way contest to fund the debt of the English state. The Tories favoured the land banks while [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:58:16
Medical Expenses A Common Cause Of Bankruptcy
The following guest post was submitted by Kevin, web content writer for Resqdebt.com. For more helpful tips on how to save money and stay out of debt, visit Resqdebt’s website at www.resqdebt.com . When Americans think of a person trapped in enormous amounts of debt, inevitably they think of irresponsibility. They think of fast cars and fancy stereo equipment. They think of people living the high life who could not afford it. In short, they think of a deadbeat. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-25 10:00:13
Britain Becoming ‘Bankruptcy Tourism’ Hotspot
Cash-strapped Europeans are travelling to Britain to go bankrupt – then returning home debt-free. “Bankruptcy tourism” is becoming so popular that a company is now helping insolvent Europeans to travel and live temporarily in the UK. Lenient laws mean that foreigners can live in Britain, file for bankruptcy and leave with the slate wiped clean after [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 15:44:02
UCI dean sees history lesson in financial crisis
Depression protests/Wikipedia We turn over our weekend interview this week to Andrew J ... s everyday lives. Business consolidators and their Wall Street advisers are creating large new ... and creditors overreaching in their use of debt, lowering the margin of safety in the financial system [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 08:13:48
Battlestar Galactica Original Prop Auction Update - Print Edition of Catalog Available
As noted last month (see Live Event Catalog Available Online) ... impressive catalog. It shares a lot of similarities with and owes a debt to the Christie’s set of two [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:11:24
Watch Previleged Season 1 Episode 11
I guess you have already watch Previleged Season 1 Episode 10, here comes after its 11th episode. JoAnna Garcia from “Reba” role the character of Megan, a would-be writer with crippling debt from college loans, no job and no prospects who tries to bail herself out by becoming live-in tutor [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 18:05:46
Money Match #6: Anya, Boston area Female Seeking Male
Here's another Money Match profile, from someone whose experience living in China has given her a very interesting perspective on personal finance: ... by them. I have no debt and don't own many clothes or other objects, but the ones I own I value highly [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 13:09:00
One Reason I’ve Been So Quiet
Today GamerDude and I signed the final paperwork involved in refinancing a rental property that we own as a means to get out from under the load of too much debt. This is one of those things that I was holding back from talking about here until I was sure that everything went through. I cannot describe the relief of no longer having to live paycheck to paycheck (and even then only barely making it as year by year we fell into mroe and more debt). And while we are still in the same amount of [more...]
Date: 2009-09-26 01:53:47
Why Can’t We Just Learn to Live Together?
There’s a rather angry exchange going on in econ-blog land ... be financed. The additional government debt means that existing current resources just move from one use ... national income accounting to know that that is what he is assuming. He does not understand [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:58:35
Annotated Digital Culture Links: December 16th 2008
Links for December 16th 2008: The writer’s guide to making a digital living ... his online show is “silly,” but it helped pay off credit-card debt. One year after YouTube ... it, you had to erase it! Amazing stuff. Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2008 TorrentFreak - Surprising [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 03:47:15
Bill Consolidation
Hasn't being in debt become a fact of life for a lot of people ... that can do that but I am not one of them. However, there are limits to how far you get into debt and credit cards are the worse ... . Whether it is with credit cards or homes or cars, we never really live life with out at least [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 04:14:49
Something Good About America
The daily litany of bad news, which fills the pages of our newspapers, is a constant reminder that we live in a country, ... or “the long war.”), or the downward spiraling of wages, or our personal and public debt [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 11:58:53
The final debate: The live-blog post
By TigerHawk at 10/15/2008 08:44:00 PM I'll be live-blogging the debate at this post. As long as I can bear it ... a new attitude toward debt, including individuals. McCain gets us back to the home ownership issue [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 01:30:08
Make it Automatic
When I posted my 2009 goals many of you asked for me to share some of my tips for living on less. In 2009 I hope to write many articles about how we are able to live below our means. The first tip I have is make it automatic. This can apply to savings as well as debt. While we were paying off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 04:32:48
20 Ways to Bring Love and Good Fortune in the New Year
Human beings, by nature, are superstitious. Perhaps because we live--and will always live--in an uncertain world ... is guaranteed. Pay your bills before January 1st as the new year should not begin with debt. Conversely, don’t loan any money or pay loans as you’ll be paying out the rest of the year. The same goes [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 15:17:43
A self-made life
Regular readers will probably be pleased to know the white Christmas tablecloth is washed and back in the cupboard. ; - )No one will hand you the life you want to live on a silver platter. The only life that is there for the taking, without modifications, is today's "normal" life of spending, debt, credit cards [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 04:32:00
Individuals With Too Much Debt Can Receive Monetary Assistance From Federal Grants Available Now
Author : Lindsy Emery Owning a home is a great responsibility and equally a huge reward Many people who move from an apartment into their own home cite it as one of the most enjoyable experiences of their lives Home ownership is a very long commitment to a mortgage and that responsibility doesn't go away just because other circumstances may change In a financially challenged economy, many homeowners find themselves facing hardships when it comes to keeping their house payments up to date [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 04:18:13
Individuals With Too Much Debt Can Receive Monetary Assistance From Federal Grants – Available Now!
Owning a home is a great responsibility and equally a huge reward. Many people who move from an apartment into their own home cite it as one of the most enjoyable experiences of their lives. Home ownership is a very long commitment to a mortgage and that responsibility doesn’t go away just because other circumstances may change. In a financially challenged economy, many homeowners find themselves facing hardships when it comes to keeping their house payments up to date. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 18:16:01
In Real Estate, You're Better Off Doing One Thing At A Time
Hi--I just found your site today. The best I've ever seen/read, etc. Thank You!! I do have a question I didn't see addressed regarding our current situation/dilemma: Our present home, which we've lived in for 8 years, is worth around $180,000 (yes, it's a small town...), and we owe $105,000. My husband has been working for about 5 years now, & has a pretty good salary (around $100K) but we have a LOT of debt --mainly a result of having had 2 babies while in school. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-13 14:00:00
Helping me out of debts
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Date: 2009-05-15 04:51:00
Carnival of Personal Finance: Live From Monticello!
(Thomas Jefferson's Monticello) I'm working on this carnival from my hotel room just down the road from Thomas Jefferson's famous home of Monticello, where I have spent the weekend at the fantastic Heritage Harvest Festival . Considering Jefferson was a bit of a profligate and died deeply in debt, his may not be the best example of good financial practices. Nevertheless, Jefferson was an incredibly resourceful, inventive man who had a lot of sensible things to teach us. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-14 11:00:00
Weekly remarks: GOP sees more taxes, debt in healthcare reform; Obama sees progress at UN
Weekly Republican Remarks by Rep. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, as provided by the Republican National Committee Hello, I'm Senator Johnny Isakson from Georgia. First, I want to send my condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in the floods that have devastated my home state this past week. I am working with Senator Saxby Chambliss , Governor Sonny Perdue and the administration to bring federal assistance to those who have suffered damages. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-26 10:00:00
‘I was abused as a child and sexually assaulted as a teenager’, says model outed …
After living the glamorous life of a jetsetting model and celebrity, Sophie Anderton’s fall from grace was something of a shock. And in a new interview she claims that it was childhood abuse that led her to sell her body for money after racking up a serious amount of debt with drug dealers. The former Wonderbra girl has admitted charging wealthy businessmen £15,000 an hour for sex to fuel her drug addiction. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 18:00:55
Find Way to be Financial Freedom
1. This is a picture of crashed Toyota Harrier which took 5 lives instantly after having head on collision with a truck ... when there are huge amounts of money to settle. This is where people need to be in Debt Relief all the time as a method of precaution. 2. One way to start is first, you need to reduce your debt in a package [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 01:08:39
The Debt Bomb and You
Lots of folks these days are concerned about the ever growing national debt and our ability (or lack thereof) to pay it. For those of you out there that are actually concerned (I guess that excludes any liberals that might frequent JBM) this article ought to scare the living shit out of you.Assume you had put much of your savings into U.S. government bonds and then you learned the following. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 01:47:50
52nd Bankruptcy & Debt Carnival- Now Online!
Monday, August 31, 2009debt kid presents Depression and Debt a Dangerous Combination posted at DebtKid.Jack Schmidt presents Bending Time in the World of Finance posted at SectorMatic Money Journal, saying, “SectorMatic Money Site – Personal Finance | Everything for the Big Spender on a Budget! Now you can live like a fat cat, even if you’re on a money diet. Laugh all the way to the bank with Jack Schmidt and SectorMatic. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-31 19:40:21
Live Peacefully without Credit Problem
Wow ! free credit online... is here to serve you , searched on www.creditnexus.com. This good news to all who need to get their current credit report ... first the product or services like attorneys fee, medical fee or insurance which you promise to pay ... accumulation of debt. Always make an effort to improve credit by paying bills on time and paying [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 13:24:11
The Financial Foibles of Linda Flores
We live in tough economic times. Our financial system is scrambling to avoid a global meltdown and lots of folks are having trouble making ends meet ... . Linda Flores, R-Clackamas, to help cover a 3-year-old automobile debt. The matter reawakens questions of personal debt, which became an election issue two years ago when Flores defeated a [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 17:53:26
Top 10 Ways To Save Money - Number 2 - Live On A Budget
Let’s take ten minutes and create your new budget for December. Write down your expected monthly income. (Use your take-home pay.) ... , mortgage, insurance, food, clothing, gifts, miscellaneous, cell phones, credit card payments, etc. Need ... ! This is the amount that you can budget for extra savings or extra debt reduction payments. Did [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 21:41:51
Very Vague Dispatch from L.A. — #4
Possible Position Soon Available: Rebound Woman Wanted: Attractive, educated, and good-humored woman who wears glasses, ... nipples preferable), and angry sex against the living room wall with a depressed, unpaid blogger until ... with him, destroying your sense of self-worth and identity, and leaving you in debt, but giving [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 05:48:30
Permanent Link to Mattresses and pillows, a diversified portfolio
Mattresses and pillows, a diversified portfolio Post a comment Posted by: Tiffany Wu Tags: Mediafile, Havas, Live Nation, major league baseball, ... be in the most conservative mechanisms I could -- treasury bills, whatever, absolutely. The old trite ... Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig "I'd put 40 percent of it into exceedingly high-yielding senior debt [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 17:54:59
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