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Again, I have to give a big thanks to Intuit for making this giveaway possible. I’m super excited that five of you will get a great tool for tracking your finances. Quicken has helped me greatly.
So what numbers did random.org generate?
19 – Joy Smith from The Insane Writer
76 – Jill
99 – Danny
117 – Carlos
74 – little_earth from Advice from an Albatross
I’ve emailed the commenters and if I don’t hear back from them I will draw additional commenters(s).
Thanks everyone for sharing a joke! I hope everyone got some great laughs from it. I know I cracked up.
I have another giveaway coming up shortly…so stay tuned.
I have to give a bit of thanks to Mr. Credit Card. Even though I didn’t submit an article to the Carnival of Debt Reduction, he let me be the the host of the 105th Carnival of Debt Reduction – The Emmy Award Version. He asked for everyone to submit their best debt reduction article. Since I was feeling under the weather, I ended up sleeping past the deadline to submit. Mr. Credit Card decided to let me host the special Emmy Award Version of the Carnival of Debt Reduction.
NCN took on the Festival of Frugality this week and organized ideas for saving money and increasing your income.
Fellowes at Dollar Buy Dollar is back to blogging and shares his debt reduction playbook. Instead of dealing with a debt consolidation company, he took things into his own hands.
In other news, I am finally feeling better. The virus that took hold of me really took me for a spin. I was absolutely miserable the past week, and yesterday I started feeling somewhat like myself again. Today I am feeling even better. I’m still not 100%, but at least I am not getting worse *knock on wood*.
Just a reminder that the giveaway for Quicken 2008 ends this Friday at 11 pm EST. If interested, make sure you visit this post.
After yesterday’s post about RealAge.com, I started wondering if I could find any information on what exactly happens to your body when you are in debt.
I found a very interesting article via Gearing Up Consultants, Presenters and Psychologists. Here’s an exerpt:
“Dr. Sylvia: Without a doubt, financial debt is a serious trap millions of people experience. Debt leaves you with a feeling of imminent doom, overwhelming stress and as a result more health problems. Research has tied stress to health problems including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stomach disorders such as colitis Overtime, chronic debt leads to chronic worry. We eat too much, smoke too much, drink too much and generally torture ourselves to death over what we owe!”
If you get a chance, please check out the full article, Debt Got You Down? Ask Your Body. At the end, Dr. Sylvia gives a few recommendations for those struggling with debt.
I’m not usually one to do a lot of online tests. Most of them are so short that it’s very unlikely that they can get a good idea for what they are testing for. I heard about RealAge.com and at first I dismissed it. How could a website figure out your habits and lifestyle and then determine your biological age? Then I heard a few more things. What the heck…I’ll give it a shot.
Going through the questionnaire, I was very surprised. It was very detailed and asked a bunch of questions. Some are obviously detrimental to your health, like whether you smoke (big strike against me) or whether you have high blood pressure (not me anymore, I lowered that one…yay!). What peaked my interest was the series of financial questions that they asked.
Here’s the ones that affected me:
- I had serious financial problems
- I thought I might lose my job
- I felt overwhelmed by credit card debt
- I was worried about healthcare coverage
- I was worried about saving for retirement
For their explanation of the questions, they said that, “Chronic financial worry can significantly increase normal stress levels.”
I don’t doubt that for a second. I have stressed out far too many times about our finances and I know it hasn’t helped my health. I’ve been trying to keep the stress level down now that we are in debt reduction mode, but it’s very difficult. Until our debt is paid off, it will always be looming above our heads.
My final “real age” was determined to be 39.9 years old. As a 30 year old, that’s a bit to swallow that the test said that I’m pushing 40 biologically. I’m a skeptical person, and while I’m not so sure I’m really almost 40 biologically, I don’t doubt that there are changes that I can make to live a little longer. I think if anything, that is the biggest point of the site. After you finish your test and receive your results, you are able to read their recommendations on how you can lower your “real age.”
If you are interested in checking out your “real age”, visit RealAge.com. The test itself is free and all you will need to do is provide a valid email address and then answer some basic height/weight/health/lifestyle questions.
I’m still feeling pretty darn sick, but this giveaway is helping to put a smile on my face. I have five Quicken Premier 2008 copies (Windows version) that Intuit gave me to give away. These will be delievered via a secure download link so there’s no waiting for the post office to deliver them.
Some of you may know that I have another blog out there where I give tips on how to use Quicken. I haven’t updated the blog in a while because it’s going through a little change once I get around to doing it. I love the program and enjoy using it. I also received a copy and I plan on using it to post more tutorials on how to use Quicken. Yay!
Can you tell that I’m excited?
To be considered, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing a joke. It can be a corny joke or a pretty cool one. Only thing I ask is that you keep it clean. Some say laughter is the best medicine and we all could probably use a few laughs.
The deadline to enter is 11:00pm EST on Friday, September 21, 2007. I will use random.org to select five random commenters. I will announce the names here no later than Sunday, September 23, 2007 as well as email the commenters. At that time the commenters will need to email me back to confirm their addresses and I will reply to those emails with the secure download link to download the program. If I do not hear back from the commenters selected by midnight on Tuesday, September 25, 2007, I will randomly select another commenter(s). Your chances of having your comment selected will depend on the number of comments received and only one comment per person please.
Ok, let’s share some jokes and have a good time here 
EDIT: THIS IS OVER.
I’m slowly getting back into participating in carnivals. For a while there, I kept forgetting to submit articles by the deadline.
Here’s the carnivals I participated in this week:
Carnival of Debt Reduction #104 at The Happy Rock.
Carnival of Personal Finance #117 at Kmull.com.
There is plenty of reading there for a while. I’m still sick and it looks like I’ll be visiting the doctor tomorrow since I’m not getting anywhere with knocking out this germ on my own. I think I need some help.
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- Original Debt: $97,293.06
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- Remaining: $95,365.17
- Emergency Fund: $1100
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