Archive for the 'Young' Category

Parents and Money

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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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 […]

When Spending Money Hurts Like Pulling Teeth

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

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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, […]

Never Find a *Debt* Like This

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

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 […]

My Financial Background - Young

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

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 […]