Entries Tagged as ‘Debt Reduction’

February 8, 2008

Murphy makes a visit….

I can’t believe that it didn’t happen sooner.  This month it’s been four years we’ve been “throwing newspapers for freedom”.  Four years of winter, cold, snow and ice.  It’s fabulous exercise!  Most of the time it’s easy if you don’t mind sleep deprivation.  It fits into our lives perfectly.
I should have know this would happen [...]

October 1, 2007

The car drives different when…..

…..it’s not dragging a payment book!!!
Yes, the day has arrived. We made our last car payment ever! Never again will we borrow for a rapidly depreciating asset. The “M” is ours!
I sent the check off Friday to Crapital One….buh bye now.
And so the ticker moves…..four debts down, two to go.

September 5, 2007

Another one bites the dust!

American Excess has left the building.
$1209 and it’s GONE. Three more debts to go. God willing our car will be next at the end of this month.
Dave Ramsey knows what he’s talking about. This stuff works.

August 15, 2007

And the snowball rolls….

The snowball is still rolling! We are posturing ourselves for some big payments in the next two months. We plan to haul Amex to the curb this month and then plan to pay off our 300m early by the end of September. It will be the last car payment we ever make in [...]

July 10, 2007

Our Debt Free Adventure Continues…

It seems our life is full of adventures. Baylee is always an adventure. For the past 3 1/2 years, though, we’ve been on a parallel adventure to get debt-free following Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover. In May, we had the opportunity to go to Kansas City and see him at a Live [...]