[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. If you’ve read some of my previous Man Vs. Debt posts, maybe you know that my background is NOT in personal finance. I’m a writer, first and foremost, and my experience comes mainly through 13 years as a professional …
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[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. On a recent Sunday, Chris and I sat in church and listened to an appeal to help stock the food pantry. The needs were simple: canned goods, boxed goods, peanut butter and jelly, and rice and beans. The same …
No Leftovers Left Behind: Saving Money in Your Fridge Read More »
[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. I’m kind of a numbers freak, but there used to be one number I ABSOLUTELY ignored. 100% ears-covered, la-la-la-I’m-not-listening ignored. I had my head in the sand. And that number is the one I quote most often nowadays. Yeah, you’d …
Get Your Head Out of the Sand: 5 Steps to Facing What You Owe Read More »
[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. Mega milestone this month, you guys… the sixties have faded away! We are now under $60,000 in non-mortgage debt, down from a high of almost $90,000! Officially, our total stands at $59,966.29 in debt to go. As of last month’s update, that number was …
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[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. My 12-year-old daughter sent me the image above this week. She’d been searching Google Images for positive quotes (have I mentioned I have a pretty cool kid?) and this was one of her favorites. Meanwhile, I had started writing a …
[share_sc] Note: This is a post from Joan Concilio, Man Vs. Debt community manager. Read more about Joan. Meet my cat Floyd. Floyd’s one of five cats in our household menagerie, which also contains one large dog, a hamster, and currently some monarch butterflies in a hatchery. We like animals – but they’re awfully hard …
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