The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

Personal Finance in a World of Excuses

Tag Archive: debt

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Correlations Between Debt and Obesity

Completely off topic note: For those who are interested in an update on our little Junebug, you can head on over to today’s post at Life by Pets. While we should have spent over $650 so far, the vet office keeps waving fees and we’ve paid less than $200.   This is, with a few edits, a post I put up over on a financial message board I’m part of earlier this week. One of theread more…

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The Basics

I got a call this weekend from a friend of mine who wanted to share some good news. On Friday, she was called in for an unexpected interview and then offered a new position- one making more money than she’s ever made before. This friend has been underemployed for quite some time. She’s been working as a manager at a comic and games shop (funny, when we were teens, that seemed like a dream job), butread more…

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Reaching a Milestone

Sometimes the journey out of debt or just to a better financial picture can be long and tedious. It gets tiring, and you just get sick of it all. In order to counteract this fatigue, I choose financial milestones that I am looking forward to meeting as little points of celebration along the way. This week, we hit a milestone that I have been looking forward to meeting for a LONG time. I graduated in Mayread more…

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An Introduction of Sorts

I started this blog with the assumption that the only people who read it would be people who already knew me. But now that I’ve joined the Yakezie Challenge, I figured that maybe I should introduce myself. Since this is a personal finances blog, lets stick with the things that are most relevant to that. Demographics: Mid-30s, married, 2 dogs, homeowner (or mortgage holder, whatever you want to call it), 2 cars- both paid for, livingread more…