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• 03.12.08
  Why We Are Committed to Living Debt Free Featured, Frugality | (7)

  Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? - Ebenezer Scrooge Being in debt is simply no good - and if you lived in the 19th century it meant you went to live in a very unpleasant place where you were forced to stay (and pay rent!) until your family could pay off your debts for you. Today, debt simply sucks. Back then debt killed, literally - well maybe not literally, it was probably the dysentery or the tuberculosis that actually killed you, but it was debt 's fault for putting you in the stinky death hole ...

  Tagged: about me, consumerism, credit, credit management, life-style choices
  
• 03.11.08
  Check it out: The Finwikian Blog | (2)

  Rather than write more quality content for this site, today during my lunch break I went out and created my very first wiki article ever. It is up over at the Finwikian, a Personal Finance wiki page created by Mrs. Micah. It is a fun idea, and could probably be built out very quickly with some liberal use of the copy-and-paste technique. I hear Wikipedia has got some pretty good content.I liked the article I stumbled upon about My Family's Money. Whoever wrote that is a genius. If you have any similarly genius ideas about ...

  Tagged: about me
  
• 03.06.08
  Run, Steward! Run! Work | (0)

  Today I learned another one of the dangers of bus riding - early buses.My mornings are generally pretty straight forward. Get up early, eat breakfast, shower, dress, get food, play guitar, head off to the bus stop. I normally like to get out of the house between 6:20 AM and 6:24 AM to make sure I can make it to my stop before the bus arrives sometime after 6:30 AM. This morning I made it out of the house at 6:24 AM after sweetly singing Screeching Weasel's "I love you" into my wife's ear in my ...

  Tagged: about me, lessons learned, San Diego, transportation
  
• 01.30.08
  Being a Massive Mooch Frugality | (0)

  I have to admit that I am a pretty big mooch. Today we had some people from corporate come into the office for meetings with a recently acquired company to have one of those "where-do-we-go-from-here" discussions. In the past, when somebody comes from corporate it can sometimes mean a free lunch. These lunches are always good. I really like them.I got all excited about the prospect of free lunch as I was introduced to all the new faces from our newest acquisition. I remember thinking, "Boy, it sure would be easier to remember this persons name ...

  Tagged: about me
  

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