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Friday Blog Highlight – I’m Changing Things a Little

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I’ll still have a Friday Blog Highlight, but it will be highlighting articles that caught my attention during the week. I found some great articles this week that you might enjoy, so I felt like sharing.

First off is Globguru at Musings of a Graduate Student. He shares that he has 18 credit cards and not a single late payment. Here I am worried about 4 credit card payments!

Secondly, we have John at Mighty Bargain Hunter. He gives us a little bit of insight into his personality when he discusses how, This P Has to be More J About his Finances. He is talking about the Myers-Briggs type indicator. Me, I used to be an ISFJ in high school, but when I took the test my third year of college I was an INTJ. Perhaps all along I was an INTJ, but I thought I was more of an ISFJ. Anyways, I probably should look at how my type relates to personal finances sometime soon. It could be very informative.

Lastly, there was a question I enjoyed over at AllFinancialMatters. JLP asked, Has a song or piece of music ever given you goosebumps when you listen to it?. You can see my comment over there. Basically, I have felt them one time while playing music and it was one of the greatest feelings in the world.

October Net Worth Update $-41,318 (up 3.46%)

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Our net worth increased for October, so I am very pleased. I just don’t want to see it going down just yet 😉

To see the complete breakdown, you can see my NetWorthIQ profile here.

October was the first month without a car payment, and that helped with the overall picture for October. Unfortunately, I will not be able to snowball that payment into the rest of our debt. We will be using that $250/month to go towards obtaining health insurance for me and my family.

I am currently reading Health Care on Less Than You Think (amazon referral link) by Fred Brock and I will have a review shortly on the book. The beginning chapters are sobering, giving examples of individuals that have been devistated financially by medical problems. I know one medical problem can easily undo all of the progress we’ve made reducing debt, and reading those stories really hit home.

That will be my weekend – finishing reading that book and figuring out what health insurance company to go with. Stay tuned to hear more about the book or how I am going about finding decent health insurance.