Debt Sucks

I have $200 in cash on me right now, all in one dollar bills. Why?

Well, I needed plenty of money to trade with at the Where’s George? gathering, of course. However, I can’t just go deposit the bills I traded for back into my checking account. BIG no-no.

In any case, I borrowed $50 from my [...]

One major problem that I’ve had in writing here is that I’ve had so many small, useless events that I’d like to write about, somewhere, but haven’t found them worthy of writing about here. You know, those things that are slightly noteworthy, but only take a sentence to write about, and I don’t want to [...]

I guess I was naive to think that once you make a deal with a debt collection company, and they start taking your money, and then they start taking even more of your money, they’ll leave you alone. Apparently not.

Just as I was pulling out of the alley to go to work, I got a [...]

From June 2 to July 2, my net worth increased an average of $54.63 per day, or $1,638.95 overall, to -$59,928.09. This is a 2.73% increase, and results in a projected zero net worth on 11/02/2012.

My sister stopped by today for no reason, so I went ahead and wrote her a check for the amount [...]

Since I struggled previously with budgeting for savings, and still am, and still couldn’t come up with a plan, I’ve opted to take the slow way out. My secondary savings goal is $1,200, at the moment. $800 of that is for the computer build, and $400 for a firearm.

When I say slow, I mean sloooowww. [...]

With this latest payment, that finally went through yesterday, I have officially made progress on my Capital One debt. It now stands at an amazing 1.65% lower than where it was at the beginning of the year. Woohoo! I still can’t wait for Friday, when there will be much more progress updating to do…

In other [...]