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It’s graduation season and we’d like to offer a little assist to the high school graduates out there (as well as returning college students) who are looking to lower their tuition bills. With over $1.4 trillion(?!!) student loan debt out there – we’d love to help point to ways that students can access money that
Next weekend I’ll be running my sixth half marathon and my first one since hitting 40 years old. As I get older the miles feel harder and harder, but I continue to push on. I push on, because I know that if I stop and become sedentary, then it’ll be harder to gain back my
This past week I started hearing some weird noises from my 12 year old van. Anytime I started my air conditioning unit it started making a sputtering noise. So, I took it into the repair shop that I regularly have all my maintenance done at. After getting it inspected they told me that the air
It feels like each month is going by quicker than the last one. March flew by, and primarily due to how much I’ve had to do at work! This past month we did our taxes and came to find out that we owed $2,200. After talking to our great accountant (my mother-in-law), we came to
These past few weeks I’ve been having a lot of pressure with my job! So much so, that I’ve been having to work extra hours and get my projects done ahead of schedule. I normally put a lot of pressure on myself to perform at a higher level, but just in the last few months
The following guest post is from one of my good friends and fellow debt freedom fanatic, Mrs. Picky Pincher. In this post she describes what her and her husband do when they think they can’t trim their budget anymore. I can definitely relate to their story in how I scour over my budget looking for
This year I turned 40 years old! Yep…I’m an old man. :) Ha Ya right! Age is just a number. As my wife will attest too, sometimes I completely don’t act my age. Which is alright sometimes, but again who says you need to act like a certain age? When I was 22 years old
Our friends at Cinch are building new technologies to help folks manage their financial life better. Their new service will be launching this summer and will let you know more about that when it goes live. For now, here’s a little from Kerri (a financial expert at Cinch) on what they are up to and some
Today I applied a pretty big lump sum to my mortgage in my pursuit of freedom from debt. Yep. I got paid out for my vacation from leaving my previous job, and from the money we have made from doing AirBnB. It is really amazing how the Lord has blessed us as we’ve progressed in
Friends, this article is really personal as to my experience about recently buying a farmhouse, and has involved a lot of pain and financial loss for my family. However, at the end of it, I have felt that my experience may resign-ate with other people that might be buying a house and want to get
