The following is a guest post by a dear friend Ed(@ed_bruner) who is just months away from finally getting out from under $40,000+ in debt. Use cash to plug up the holes I assume every family budget has holes in it. ...
5% cashback sounds good right? Or does it? Baker at Man vs Debt, recently posted on why he doesn’t use credit cards. His personal morals don’t allow him to support an industry that he doesn’t agree with. I thought he made a...
Woo-Hoo! Football has finally started! Better yet I got to watch my favorite team, The Washington Redskins, on TV(This is a big deal when you live in the middle of nowhere and you only have three channels). But let ye...
Yee-Haw! The Debt Destroyer clan finally got out of Dodge (meaning we took a quick vacation over Easter break). And with such a trip, there are all the last minute preparations you need to take care of before leaving. Making...
This is a guest post by Trisha Wagner. Trisha is a freelance writer for DepositAccounts.com, where you can compare rates from dozens of banks in one place. Trisha writes regularly on the topics of personal finance and saving money. Credit card...
I just recently received another $250 from my Chase Freedom rewards card. The check arrived almost exactly on my one year anniversary of signing up for the card. I have some unspent cash back still on the account, so even accounting...
After two months of procrastination, I finally called Chase to ask that they fully remove any finance charges related to my first time late payment offense. Did I ever mention that I hate making phone calls even if it is just...
Here is another strike against credit cards. Not only do they often cause us to spend more, but they make merchants charge more to cover the credit card processing fees are usually 2-3%. The best cash back credit card that I...
This is a guest post from Tisha Tolar is a freelance writer providing content for CreditCardAssist.com, where she regularly writes about credit cards, rewards programs and general consumer finance issues. ****** As the economy remains rocky and the credit card industry...
I hope you are all enjoying the holidays. For those of you who haven’t, the good news is that they are over. Long time readers might remember that I mentioned my Christmas Budget technique is to save up our cashback credit...
