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TheHonestDollar has a post up about how personal finance is like riding a bike. It’s a great post, and the comments got me thinking about training wheels and the role of parents in how we learn to ride bikes and handle money.
I learned to ride a bike [...]
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My wisdom teeth are coming out in a few weeks. In order to keep the cost around $500 instead of $1,000, I have decided to skip the IV sedation, and stick with just novacaine.
In Debt thinks that is crazy. I think that it is both reasonable and necessary, [...]
In Debt and I go back so far… oh, whatever. Cut the corny lyrics, In Debt and I just realized that we’re in debt. Okay, so we knew it before, but we finally got around to calculating the exact amount of our credit card debt. We have a total of ten** credit cards and $11,400 [...]
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Under current circumstances, there are only a couple of expenses that can really be controlled. First among those is food.
As in most areas, I would previously spend money on what I wanted without giving it a second thought. To help save money, as well as to help me be more conscious about spending, [...]
As you might have guessed from my previous post, finding a job in Young’s native region didn’t go quite as quickly as I’d hoped. Over the past few months, I have gotten a little contract work, but nothing permanent.
In part, I realize, this is because I haven’t really been going about things in an efficient [...]
As a child my parents explicitly taught me about money, and specifically to avoid debt. They had no mortgage and paid their credit card(s) off each month. They never talked about credit scores because they were irrelevant. The point was to spend less than I earned- a lot less. I took their lessons very seriously [...]
One of the challenging things about trying to manage finances as a couple is the differences in our financial backgrounds, and the consequences that this has on our current attitudes and behavior. This is a summary of my (In Debt’s) background.
When I was growing up, debt never really affected me negatively. I was vaguely aware [...]
Welcome to our blog. This is a place where we will write and share about our experiences of being young and in debt, as well as our attempts to fight our way back out from under that burden.
I think that our experience parallels the experience of many others who find themselves in debt in their [...]