I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I ended up working the holiday at my outside-of-home job that was offering holiday pay for the day. The problem was, I ended working my old daytime hours and I am not accustomed to working those hours anymore—I was beat when I got home! But I know the [...]
I began writing this last week, but never posted it. Because of everything going on with the pup, my head was just not all there. When we got denied for the financing through Care Credit, we really started getting desperate trying to come up with funds to get the pup medical care. We looked into [...]
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Yes, the pup needs surgery. She finished her meds on Tuesday and appeared to be fine Wednesday. In the middle of the night though, she was back to yelping and shivering and was in total pain. Luckily, we had 2 pain pills left over for her just in case we needed them. We ended up [...]
Yes, you read it right. I have been so slammed work-wise and family-wise, and I have had so much going on with the pup that I have not had time to update here about another important thing going on in my life. As I posted a few weeks back, I was offered a job writing [...]
As I wrote in the previous post, me and my husband applied for Care Credit in an effort to get some money up to obtain medical care for our sick pup. We were denied. Being desperate to get our pup seen by a vet, we were going nuts trying to find anything we could sell, [...]
Shortly after I last posted here, my dog became extremely ill, was vomiting blood, and required emergency care. Yes, we just lost our family dog that was getting up there in age. Now, our pup that is not even 7 yet, is sick…seems to be really sick. Last time she was sick, and it was [...]
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Coming up with a budget and sticking to it is really helping us out. I also kicked it into high gear and pumped up my writing a little more. I am still not a fast writer, but I managed to make my monetary goal for the week to get all the bills caught up and [...]
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This girl in debt is still around. Geese, I can’t believe we are in September already, and it has been over a month since I have last posted here. It sure doesn’t feel like it. You know, I got my renewal notice for this site the other day and when my husband seen it, he [...]
It has been just over 2 weeks since my last update here, and shortly after I updated…things just went haywire. Where do I even begin? My husband no longer has a job with the company he was working for. That was brief, huh? The sale of the company was going through, then it wasn’t going [...]
Things are moving fast here on our end and I have way too many updates! I will try to keep it brief though because I have loads of work to do and so very little time to do it. I just do not like leaving this site sitting dormant. I enjoy posting here, and again, [...]
Any other time posting this news would be dreadful for me to do, but since bad luck just seems to follow us…what the heck, right? So in my last post I wrote about my husband getting a job and we were finally catching up again. Until he got that first check from this new job, [...]
I don’t like writing these types of posts, I prefer to report only good news. But then again, this is a debt blog and from day one I planned on documenting the good, the bad, and the ugly. So here it goes…. With less than 30 days until our lease is up, we have no [...]
Our savings were looking mighty well around December, and well, things happened. We had a death in the family, we got sick and missed some work, and last week we had major car troubles. None of these things that happened are ever planned, so it helped when we had money saved up for them. The [...]
These past few weeks have been a whirlwind. While my husband, my girls and I are OK, we have had a few extended family members that have not been doing so well. Illnesses seemed to have struck a few family members during this holiday season. While most of them are doing better so far, the [...]
It is hard to believe that the holidays are almost here. This year has flown by! I went to Target the day after Halloween and my gosh-the Christmas decorations were everywhere. Where did Thanksgiving go? As the holidays approach, I am making sure we continue to stick to our budget and hold off on our [...]
A down economy? If you were in Disney World this weekend, you would never know it. The place was packed and people were spending like there was no tomorrow! Yeah, great for the economy, or Disney for that matter–but I hope people were not whipping out the credit cards and getting into debt while there. [...]
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So my week in review-did I accomplish everything I set out to do? Yes, and no. Monday went well and I wrote…a lot. My little one came home sick from school later that afternoon-and by nightfall-I was sick! She got well the next day-me, I have been sick ALL WEEK. I thought it was just [...]
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Well y’all, I sit speechless as I write this. It is almost midnight here, yet my mind is racing. My emotions are…well, I don’t know yet. I could write a book on here but my husband keeps telling me to get to bed so I don’t sleep late tomorrow-on my first day off…yeah my first [...]
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After going over my account and trying to figure out where the money went, I realized a few things I had not factored into my budget. School clothes, uniforms and school supplies. Fast food-yeah not good! Morning coffee-kicked the energy drink habit but found myself in the Dunkin Donuts drive-thru every day. Car expenses-we needed [...]
I obviously know what can happen when you don’t stick to a budget. But for some reason, I just can’t stick to one. No, I don’t buy extravagant things, in fact-I have become somewhat of a “cheapo” since by whole debt fiasco. So where am I going wrong? So I am sitting here on my [...]
I feel like every time I update here, I have a million and one things to say. This update should be better than my last…and no I still have not found my life balance yet! I am working on it but it looks like things are gonna be changing around my household soon…and for the [...]
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For as long as I can remember, my husband and I have always used coupons here and there but nothing major. When his work started slowing down and money was tight, I really started to bargain shop. These past few months I have been really doing well! I mean-I save at least 50% when I [...]
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Image via Wikipedia I have read so many articles lately about credit cards, credit card use and how creditors are tightening their belts with certain borrowers based on what they buy and where they use their cards. Huh? I put a link to one of the articles here if you want to read it as [...]
With my wake-up call this morning, my husband tells me that a couple of repo guys came to his work in the middle of the night to repossess someones car. Not just anyone’s car though-one of the owners cars! This guy walks around as if he has no care in the world and no money [...]
