Monthly Archives: July, 2007

Budget Busters: Areas For Improvement

I sat down tonight to review last month’s budget, and I overspent in a few categories. Why? Primarily, I’ve been this month and I never took that time to really look at how much money was “slipping through the cracks” in my system. Here’s my personal list of areas for improvement, and how I plan [...]

Follow My Every Move

Debt Monster recently introduced me to twitter. What is twitter? Good question. It’s this strange site where you blog about what you are doing and posts are just a few sentences long. If you’d like to find out what I’m doing, follow me here: http://www.twitter.com/NCN. If you have a twitter account, add me to your [...]

Reader Poll: The Results (Smallest Balance Or Highest Interest Rate)

In a recently poll, I asked readers to vote for the best method for reducing debt. Number of votes: 182 Votes for Method 1 (Pay smallest balance first.): 87 Votes for Method 2 (Pay highest interest rate first.) 95 As you can see, the numbers are very, very close. With just over 52% of the [...]

Frugality On The Golf Course… Really? Are You Sure?

I love to play golf.  I love to save money.  Here’s how I do both. I take my own sodas and bottled waters in a small cooler. I purchase tees, gloves, and balls online.  If you wait until you are at the clubhouse to buy supplies, you’ll pay two or three times the price for [...]