Category Archives: Debt Tracker
February 1 Debt Check In
This is my first monthly review in 2012. There are 100 new subscribers since the last time that I did this one month ago, so this is new for you. What I do is recap my debt and what affected it every single month. I also share with you how I am making extra money (usually online) in my laughable spare time. My goal in doing this is three fold:
- Demonstrate that you can, through consistently paying your bills, work a large debt down towards zero.
- Show that you don’t have to be Mark Zuckerberg to make money online.
- Hold myself accountable to my own debt reduction plan.
January 1 Debt Check In
Now that the hoopla of beginning a new year has died down a bit, it’s time to get back to our regularly scheduled programming. For us, that means checking to see where we are with our debt and if we made some money online in the month of December.
Incidentally, this blog was started three years ago this month, and I’ve dutifully done these debt check ins every single month since then. I hope to continue doing that until my debt balance reaches zero. At this rate it may be some time, but I’m committed to letting you know exactly how I’m doing.
December 1 Debt Check In
This post is pretty late by my standards. I usually have this up on the first of the month, but not having a computer puts a damper on writing things that should go on the internet. Better late than never, right?
For those of you just joining us, I like to hold my feet to the fire by recapping how I’ve done with my debt every month. Since the entire reason for this blog is paying off my debt, it only makes sense that I share how I’ve done with you. I also share how I’ve made money during the prior month. It’s important for me to share all of these details with you because of the following:
November 1 Debt Check In
Happy official Fall everyone. We had a Nor’easter over the weekend that took us directly from Summer into Winter. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Seriously, the weather was 60 degrees and then suddenly it was snowing. The weather then popped right back up to the mid 50′s! Did I mention that it’s November in New York City? Global warming is scary!
Lots of developments happened in October. First we’ll go right to the numbers and then we’ll come back to a few developments.
September 1 Debt Check In
My gosh it’s September already. Do you realize that 3/4 of the year is already gone? I feel like it was just yesterday that I was talking about the crazy snow storms in New York and here we are about to go into fall again. Wow! I guess what I’ve heard about time seeming to go by faster the older you get holds true. It certainly seems that way for me now.
August 1 Debt Check In
August 1 and I am feeling majorly burnt out. It’s not that it’s the middle of summer and I’m pining for a trip to the beach, it’s because I’ve had very little sleep for the past month. I’ve spent the last month at work and on the weekends, renovating my rental home 2 states away. It’s draining but it might be coming to an end soon. At the point I will finally be able to get some very much needed and deserved sleep! But you’re here to see how I’m doing with my debt aren’t you? No excuses this month.
July 1 Debt Checkup
It’s the beginning of the month and time for me to run naked on the internet…financially anyway. I’m not sure how many debt reduction or personal finance bloggers actually open their books wide open for all of the world to see, but I find it cathartic. Someone asked me if I’m not afraid of what people will think of me putting everything out there, but it really isn’t that important to me.
June 1 Debt Check In
It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Time for me to over share more about me than you ever wanted to know. If you’re following along as I reduce my debt (the whole point of this blog) then you know that this is where I come clean about where I am in my debt reduction efforts.
Instead of listing out my debt I’ll include the pretty little charts and graphs that we’ve gotten used to.
May 1 Debt Check In
With the exception of my allergies, April was a good month to me. I finally went back to working a normal work schedule instead of some grueling overtime hours. The money was nice, but sleep and sanity is even better. My Earth Day giveaway was a rousing success. I had well over 60 entries which was awesome! Congrats again to all of the winners and of course a big thank you to the sponsors again.
The government finally discharged the amount that I owed then, but getting them to send me a letter saying that the obligation was fulfilled that I can send to the credit bureaus is probably going to require the blood of my first born and at least a chicken sacrifice or two. If anyone knows how to get paperwork out of New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance, please let me know, because I have no clue. They’ll cash my check but they won’t send me a damn letter.
