Archive for July, 2009

Round your debt payments up

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

This is a bit of a mind trick but it's helpful to reduce debt.  If your credit card minimum payments are $78, $187, and $365, make them $100, $200, and $400.  If your car payment is $210, make it $250 or $300.  If your mortgage payment is $879, pay the ...

Celebrate Carnival of Debt Reduction #200 with No Credit Needed

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

An old friend to the Carnival of Debt Reduction has agreed to host milestone Carnival #200.  No Credit Needed just confirmed to me that he's ready to go for next week! To sweeten things up a bit, I'll throw in $75 worth of Amazon gift certificates! $25 Amazon Gift Certificate to one ...

Discount grocery store directory

Monday, July 6th, 2009

A reader Vanessa commented on a previous discount grocery post to ask if there were any such stores in the Nashville, TN, area. I poked around a little bit with Google and hit on a post at Frugal Village that linked to this discount grocery store directory over at the Anderson ...

Count the cost, both present and future

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

"For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost?" Luke 14:28 First off, Happy Independence Day to my American readers.  Happy July 4th to others. ;) Gary North's Tip of the Week (subscribe for free in the upper right of this page) was ...