Debt Sucks

I’ve been wearing the same pair of jeans for at least a year now. They have served me well, but there’s a hole in the right pocket, one developing on the surface at the bottom of said pocket, and, most of all – they don’t come clean.

I haven’t owned a pair of shorts in years [...]

I like investing. I mean, I really like investing. I like to see my money GROW.

After filling out health insurance and 401k paperwork (with my awesome 3% contribution) at work today, it got me back in to the investing mindset. Or fever, whichever you prefer.

You know what else I really like? Lending Club. As a [...]

My grandfather offered to pay the bill for my truck yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised if my mom asked him to do this. Knowing that it would be a month til I could pay the bill myself, I hesitantly accepted.

Yarrg.

So, another day, another debt added to the list. Fantastic timing though, what with all the [...]

Timelines are fun. Here’s a nifty one:

1037: Conshohocken Getty calls me to ask what’s wrong with the truck. I tell them – clutch went to the floor.
1108: Getty calls back and tells me I need a whole new transmission. I’m so speechless at the absurdity of such a statement that he thinks I hung up, [...]

I don’t know when I’ll learn that the nice guy never wins. I gave my coworker a ride to the store yesterday to pick something up, and while there, he asked me how much I’d charge to give him a ride to Philly and back. After some quick research, I concluded that it would cost [...]

In the effot to overcome a bit of writer’s block, I googled “blog writers block” and came across a suggestion to hop over to Google Trends to see what’s hoppin’ on the web right now, to get some ideas. I noticed that “economic depression” is the #2 hot trend right now, which isn’t all that [...]

First off, I have to say that this isn’t really a Mad Lib. Debt Ninja, you’ve got it all backwards. A mad lib is supposed to be filled out not knowing what the paragraph is going to say, providing adjectives, nouns, verbs, names, and numbers to another person, and then being thoroughly amused by the [...]