Monthly Archives: June 2010

Friday Finds June 4, 2010

Carnivals, Friday Finds
I neglected to put together my Friday Finds for the two previous Fridays but I was determined to get one together today, so here we go! First, some link love to the bloggers who included Out of Debt Again recently: On May 24th, my post Finally—Our 2008 Tax Refund Arrived was included in the Carnival of Money Stories #55 hosted at Funny About Money. On May 24th, my post Discover Card Debt Reduction Progress was included at the Carnival of… Read the rest

My Clothing Category Will Be Up In May

spending money
My birthday was last month, I turned 47.  My mother, mother-in-law and my boss gave me cash adding up to close to $100.  I'm no good at applying birthday money to credit card debt, I admit it. Since embarking on my heal my gut crusade, I've managed to drop some pounds and all my clothing was starting to droop. Even my belt was wearing out from being punched with an ice pick once too many times. My hubby bought me… Read the rest

Why My Credit Score is Important to Me

plan of action
// Back in August 2009 I talked about why my credit score is important to me – it's because we would like to refinance our home. The offer from the credit union has no doubt changed since then, but we were contemplating rolling our credit card debt with the mortgage, along with trading in our 30 year loan which is at 7.375% for a 20 year mortgage which would be financed at 5.125%. All those months ago we'd told the… Read the rest

Health Care Bill and 1099s – How Is That Health Care?

income taxes
As I'm sure we all know, there's a lot in the health care bill that was passed which we didn't know about. After all, we had to pass the bill to find out what was actually in it. That's so interesting. You would think any new bill would be read thoroughly and examined with a fine tooth comb. At any rate, this recently came to my attention: “Section 9006 of the health care bill — just a few lines buried… Read the rest