Blogging Away Debt

Making $200 Quickly, Believing the Rain and Two People Are Debt-Free

Weekends are over too fast. Yesterday we socialized with some new friends and today we went for a long hike (3.2 miles – that’s pretty long for us! LOL) in the woods. My knees held up quite well during the hike which is great. There was a little bit of pain, but nothing serious.

Behind the scenes on here, I noticed today that a few things were still broken after my scare yesterday with not being able to log into my blog. If you were trying to contact me, my contact form was missing. I’ve also had an influx of spam comments. I think I have restored everything back to normal now, but if you happen to notice something funny – please let me know. It’s crazy how much technical stuff is involved with running a blog.

Okay, now onto some articles of interest:

First up is a collaboration piece over at Christian Personal Finance. He asked a bunch of us how we could make $200 in 2 weeks. My idea – garage sale. I’ve had having a garage sale on the brain lately, so that was an expected response from me LOL. I’m still pulling out stuff to sell.

Next up is an article by Grace at GRACEful Retirement. She talks about a situation over at a blog she reads (Need to be Debt Free). It’s also a blog I read, and I agree with what she had to say.

Lastly, some congrats are in order!! Two bloggers have paid off their debt! Yay!!

First up is the blogger behind Tung Sai. They are now debt free and shared how it feels.

Next up is Chicky at Kiss of Debt. I’m a little late at this, and I noticed that her blog is invitation only now, but she sent out her last credit card payment in April.

Congrats to you both!

Tinkering Tricia Did Not Strike Again LOL

by Tricia

On Friday, I tried logging into my blog and I couldn’t. I would enter my login info, hit enter, and then it would keep redirecting and redirecting trying to get to my blog but it would time out. I wasn’t locked out of my site completely, but I couldn’t get into my blog.

I tinker, and I admit that I often goof things up when I tinker. Tinkering Tricia…that’s me. But I didn’t tinker this time and something broke. That meant I had no clue how to fix it. I hit the web looking for answers and came up empty.

This site has been hosted with Dreamhost ever since I left my blogspot.com address back in July of 2006. I’ve been very pleased with them. They have always been quick to answer my emails and in this case, they were really quick and really helpful. They found the problem (it was a plugin) and got me up and running again. I was starting to feel uneasy for a while there. This blog was hacked once before, and since I didn’t tinker before things broke – I was starting to wonder if it was hacked again.

I usually don’t do this, but I have to say…if you are starting a blog and want to host it yourself, look into Dreamhost. Their price is awesome and their support is superb. If you do happen to sign up for an account for them, you can save $50 by using this link and using code GIVEME50. You’ll save $50 and I make $47 (it goes towards my hosting costs). That’s the highest discount that can be given with a code. You can also see if one of your favorite bloggers has a code and you can use theirs to help support their site.

To Dreamhost – thank you!!!

And with that, it’s a little late now to write a regular post so I’m going to bed. I’ll catch everyone up on a few things tomorrow 🙂