About This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to serve as an experiment – an experiment to get out of debt. Rather than KMyMoney or GnuCash files, or bloated spreadsheets to track and help eliminate my debt, I’ve turned to blogging. Granted, I love playing with spreadsheets, and all the awesome things I can do with them, but I also like to try new, creative ways of going about things. I also know how quickly my spreadsheeting prowess can get out of hand.
Let’s get this straight – I hate debt. Any of it. No matter how large or small. Debt rules, and right now, pretty much consumes every paycheck I get in my efforts to keep up with it, nonetheless knock it down.
It is easy to see, that you are not used to this business of adventures. Those are giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat.
Getting out of debt is more than just throwing a little extra onto your bills every month. A serious effort requires terrible budgeting (something I have experience with), as well as living within your means (or, as I like to call it, frugally, something I have a ridiculous amount of experience with). So, not only am I going to keep track of my waxing and waning debt here, I’m also going to keep track of my expenses – every single one, as every single one counts – and how much I save by living as frugally as bearable.
So, off we go, on another adventure. Here are the beginning figures:
- GE Money Bank
- $481.67
- Capital One
- $1707.85
- Lebanon Federal Credit Union
- $5625.36
- My sister
- $900
Grand total: $8714.88
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