I'm not exactly getting paid to write this. I just signed up for a Money Exchange account. They are new and trying to compete with paypal. So far, I've learned that it's better because there is no fee to send and receive money. It's free to sign up.

And they are giving you $25 just for opening an account if you do it *EDIT* BY TUESDAY, APRIL 15 I ( Read more... )

Just because it was expected doens't mean it isn't good news. So now Stephen makes $18 an hour commission (plus about $10 per person in tips) and works 35 hours a week ( Read more... )

It was my husband's really brilliant idea last year when we were really hurting financially to reduce our car insurance down to the state minimum requirements. It saved us a lot of money, but now, of course I'm wishing that maybe we hadn't done that because, well, it turns out that I might be needing the extra insurance after all.

I guess maybe we ( Read more... )

We've now lived at my mom's house for a month. And we haven't been back to Aberdeen to check on the house in three and a half weeks. I think our neighbors would have called us if it burnt down, but I'm still really worried. We had to leave the heat on so our stuff wouldn't warp (and so it would be showable if the time ever comes for that) and ( Read more... )

We were winning! We were making a huge dent in our debt and paying things down. I swear, we will NOT be needing to get a bad credit card loan or anything like that. Even if I crash the car again. Please just let us get through this and get rid of the debt and find a place to live and actually be ready to have another baby soon ( Read more... )

Our story begins when I decided it was a good idea to take an unpaid internship across the country. We lived off credit cards for six weeks. That debt we paid off just as we purchased our first house in Idaho. Then we incurred a little more consumer debt with things like a fridge and a couch. Plus, you know, the mortgage. We managed to pay that off ( Read more... )

I have learned so much from financial books and Web sites about how to get out of debt that it seems like I should be an expert by now. I can certainly give good advice about Debt Management Plans to others. As for our own financial situation? Well, we're pretty much on easy street, at least in the short run. We're bringing in MORE money with fewer ( Read more... )

So if you read my last friends-only entry then you know that date night obviously wasn't that hot ( Read more... )

I was completely addicted to soap operas (I learned from my mom) from age 9 to age 16. Once I missed a whole summer's worth of episodes, I kind of lost interest, but while I was watching every day, I just died if I missed a single episode. I had a teacher in elementary school who watched the same soap I did and she thought it was cool at first, but ( Read more... )

One of the things I learned very quickly as our debt started mounting is that not all lenders are created equal. Not even close! So it's really important that you Compare Credit Cards before choosing an offer because you want a deal that will work for you. We just accepted a new offer recently (yeah, I know, I know) that gave us a choice between 0. ( Read more... )