Motivation

What I Learned From My Old Jobs

When I was fourteen, I got my first, real, paycheck-at-the-end-of-the-week, job.  I spent the summer working on a blueberry farm in South Georgia. The work was hard.  If memory serves, we began harvesting in June and worked through the end of July.  It was hot – but we couldn’t wear shorts or t-shirts.  We had to wear jeans and long-sleeved…

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Debt Reduction, Mortgage

Mortgage Payoff Progress for June 2012 with Chart

It’s time for an update on our mortgage payoff progress.  As a reminder – My wife and I purchased our first home back in February of 2010.  Since then, we have been working hard to reduce our mortgage principal and payoff our mortgage early. We have a conventional, fixed-rate 15-year mortgage. Our goal is to pay it off our mortgage…

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