Monthly Report January 2008

Monthly Reports
Okay, here's how January looked. Payment for credit card #2 comes out of my account automatically, unless I've made a payment earlier in the month. Since I made the payment manually on December 31st, the auto-payment didn't come out on the scheduled date. I didn't catch that during the month and so technically no payment was made to the higher credit card for the month of January. Although not paying that payment is a bad thing, it helped us to… Read the rest

I Finally Did It! — 0% Interest

Balance Transfer Saga, credit cards
Zachary Spencer of This Can Change made a comment over at Mr. Debtbeater's and following his link to his blog I found a post where he mentions the Citi Professional Cash Card which offers 0% interest on your balance transfers, with no fee to transfer, and no annual fee. This is the best deal I've seen yet, so I decided to go for it. It's simply amazing. You put in your information online and within moments you find out whether… Read the rest

Watch Your Deductions

spending money
Whoops! My apologies. I promised to post this yesterday, but we had a little crisis going on last night. One of our neighbor's children was left home alone and we brought him home for the evening until Grandma finally got home around 8pm. I have been doing double duty at work, shadowing my boss to learn her job, so I can continue converting our manual bookkeeping to electronic. Combine that with my Internet connection at work was on and off… Read the rest

Past Due Child Support

spending money
Mr. A and I have a very unusual child support situation. He owes me child support. However, since we are remarried, any support he pays comes right back to the two of us. For a few years during our divorce, having sole custody of our children, I was on welfare. Our oldest child has Down Syndrome and it was necessary for me to be home to care for him. Mr. A fell behind on child support for a period of… Read the rest