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by Tricia

I love feel good stories. You know, the ones where you hear about simple people doing nice things. I found such a story on Yahoo today.

Osman Chowdhury, a 41-year old New York taxi driver, found 31 diamond rings in the back of his taxi. He could have received a hefty sum if he chose to keep the rings for himself and sell him. The thought never crossed his mind.

“I’m not going to take someone else’s money or property to make me rich. I don’t want it that way,”

When the owner of the diamond rings wanted to reward Osman for his good deed, he tried to refuse the $100 reward:

“I cannot take a penny for being honest,” he said, but he reluctantly accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while trying to track her down.

I don’t know why, but I could read stories like these all day, every day. I had to share.

Here’s a link to the full Yahoo article.

by Tricia

Jim over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity has been very supportive of my efforts to reduce my debt. Quite a few times he’s linked to my blog with nice words. He noticed my post the other day about how much I’m paying in finance charges now and he asked if I’d write a guest article for his blog. I said sure.

I wrote 6 key things I did to reduce our finance charges, and discussed each of them for the article on his blog. Here’s a recap:

1.) Tried calling my credit cards to see if they would lower my interest rates

2.) Paid off as much of our debt as I could

3.) Worked to increase my credit score

4.) Took advantage of balance transfer offers

5.) Used my husband’s cards

6.) Looked around for other ways to decrease my interest rates

Please visit Jim’s site for the full article. You also may want to look around his site a little bit for he has some great information over there.

Thanks Jim, and everyone else for your support. I can’t believe its almost been a year!