Blogging Away Debt

New Numbers Are UP! And I hope you’re impressed…

I could not be more excited to share my new debt numbers!!!! I set out to make February a turning point and I succeeded! I paid the $3950 to the IRS AND nearly $4,000 to Bank of America!!!

WOW! WOW! WOW! I was also able to pay a little extra (just to say I did) to the signature loan. I set a little goal of putting the cash from my regular spending money that I did not use toward that note. That’s a fun little debt reduction game I can play b/c it is very easy to transfer money anytime to that signature loan via my credit union’s website. It made me make very different spending decisions all month long.

I hope you are as proud as I am! I’m working out details on my March goals and hope to have incredible results to share on April 1! I have to be realistic I know because the chance of burn out increases if I set the goals too lofty and I don’t want to fall off the wagon.

Unique Wedding Gift Suggestion

by Claire

I had to share that I’ve heard about a new approach to couples gift suggestions for their weddings. I posted about registries and such a few months back and while this topic doesn’t evoke a whole lot of emotion from me…this one DID make me laugh. A friend received a wedding invite that advised, ON the invite, that in lieu of gifts the couple ask that guests donate to their paypal account! I’ll give them points for boldness on that one because I can’t imagine providing deposit instructions to my paypal account!

On a totally unrelated note, the owner of the house I’m renting called today. He kindly extended an open ended “if you need more time moving out we are TOTALLY open to that!” offer. I’m sure you are! Kinda scary saying goodbye to my consistent $1795 in rent, isn’t it? There have been all of 5 showings since February 8. They were asking entirely too much at $259K with all that needs to be done. They lowered the price to $248,500 today. As crazy as my life is I am thankful to not have a mortgage at this moment.

I’m looking forward to my numbers update! Kicking some debt a** this month! 🙂