Debt Sucks

I just got off the phone with TempForce a little while ago, and managed to get a short term job doing… collating brochures. Exciting, right? I’m pretty sure she said it’s only for 2 weeks, but like I told her, it’s better than nothing. And assuming all goes well and I’m a model employee there [...]

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I’ve been saving messages left on my phone from debt collectors recently, with the intention of finally sitting down one of these days and calling them all back to work things out. I didn’t even get that far today, though, [...]

My last post on bankruptcy was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Loose Change section today. Why, I don’t know, but hey – I’ll take’em however I can get’em!

WSJ readers – Welcome to Debt Sucks. This is primarily a personal blog about my struggle to get out from underneath a mountain of debt. I do, [...]

Although the change in bankruptcy laws back in 2005 put a hell of a hamper on bankruptcy filings, the graph still looks pretty much the same: up, up, and away! The numbers may be smaller, but the climb is still pretty darn steep.

The data currently available only extends to the third quarter of [...]

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There was a conversation I was really dreading having with my grandfather. The DSL here was absolutely ridiculous. It was nearly impossible to simply watch any videos, Gmail didn’t work properly and as such I had to resort to basic HTML mode, it took about 7 hours to download a single anime episode. 70kbps and [...]

For the first time in a long time, I submitted a post to a carnival. It was the first post I’ve written in a long time that I thought was anywhere near worthy of being in a carnival, Birthday Money Pays Off. Canadian Personal Finance hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance today, and may not [...]