Good morning debt haters! This morning I would like to introduce you to a new network I have been asked to join. As you know, there are many networks out there, just as there are many personal finance blogs, but this network is a bit different because each member is considered to be an expert in a specific niche of personal finance. (investing, debt, Canadian, teens & college, retirement, taxes, Christian, and even humor.) Allow me to introduce you to the Money Mavens Network. I am extremely honored and excited to be working next to these guys. We plan to […] Read more »
Debt Free News From A Debt Free Reader #8
Finally, another Debt Free Friday!! I always love doing them and it’s been a while since the last one. The point of this series is to show you why debt freedom is so nice and to hopefully inspire you to reach for the stars. When you don’t have any debt following you around, life gets pretty interesting, and your financial options become abundant. I hope this story, and the others available help you see that. Check out Don’s Debt Free News! ENJOY! I have also put together a page, where YOU can fill out the Debt Free Questionnaire. I’d love […] Read more »
Win a Free iPhone/Android Pay Off Debt App
Hello everyone! In the Manage Your Money challenge that recently ended, I had a sponsor offer up 2 iPhone, and 2 Android Pay Off Debt Apps. However the participants either, had no debt, or had neither of these phones. So today, I would like to give them away to anyone with an iPhone or Android cell phone. I wish we would have had either phone along with this app when we were paying off our debt. The Pay Off Debt App is an application that uses the debt snowball approach to paying down your debt. As you know that is […] Read more »
Children and Money: A Basic Plan To Teach Financial Responsibility
Have you been wondering how to start teaching your children about money? If you are counting on the schools to give them anything in the form of financial training, you’re wasting your time. You’re better off doing it yourself. If schools taught solid financial principles, many of us would have never got into the financial trouble we ended up in. To make matters worse not only did we make a mess ourselves, but for most of us–myself included, we continued the stupidity for more than a decade. I plan to stop that nonsense right now with my children. As Dave […] Read more »
Cleaning Up After a Mess (Apology and Forgiveness)
Hello everyone, I hope you all had a terrific Easter Sunday! Today, I am starting the launch of the Love Everyday e-book tour. Each week, another piece of this great free resource will be hosted on each contributor’s respective blog. My contribution might not appear to be related to money, but I assure you it is–even if indirectly. Money fights are something we all face when dealing with money, and the aftermath of those money fights determine our financial success or failure. If you don’t know how to apologize to or forgive your spouse, this money thing will seem impossible. […] Read more »
Today is Enemy of Debt’s 2 Year Anniversary!
I have been at it for two who years. WOW! I can hardly believe it myself. First, I want to thank all of you for keeping me motivated each and every week to continue to spread the debt free message. Before Enemy of Debt I had not written a thing, with exception to some high school papers long, long ago. To me, sticking this blog thing out is a huge accomplishment. I started to fade out around December of 2008 and feel I was close to just giving it up. I think most bloggers experience this same feeling at some […] Read more »
Manage Your Money Grand Prize Giveaway & Questionnaire
March was awesome fun! I really enjoyed the Manage Your Money challenge and I hope you did too. Even if you didn’t participate in the comments each week, I hope you found the information and exercises to be helpful in every way. To the ones that did participate, I AM SO VERY PROUD of all of you! You took my exercises seriously each and every week—what more could I ask for? You took the challenge because you saw the need to, and you didn’t do what most people did, which was talk the talk but not walk the walk. More […] Read more »
When I’m Sick Of Being Fat, I’ll Lose Weight!
Hello everyone! Recently, I wrote a post titled When You’re Tired Of Being Broke, You’ll Start Saving. If you’ve been a subscriber for any time at all then you know I rarely beat around the bush. I am straight to the point and sometimes that comes off as mean to some. It’s not that I am mean, it’s that I believe that the truth shall set you free. I don’t think that leaving a trail of rose pedals to the bedroom, and dancing around the ugly truth, will help you solve anything. If you know what your situation really looks […] Read more »
Manage Your Money Final Week – Think Ahead and Stay Determined!
This Weeks Prize Winners! (via Random.org) FPU DVD Lesson: The Great Misunderstanding – Budgeting the Fun Stuff A Gift To My Children by Jim Rogers – Kathleen C. Congratulations to you all! 😀 Manage Your Money Final Challenge So far, you’ve learned about budgeting on paper on purpose, deciphering wants versus needs, the benefits of teamwork and accountability, impulse spending, and the impact debt has on your budget each month. Today we are going to finish the Manage Your Money challenge by talking about two things; thinking ahead and keeping the determination alive. Both are important because without either, you […] Read more »
Have You Heard About J Money’s Very First Love Drop?
Hey everyone and Happy Monday to you! For all of you enthusiastic Manage Your Money participants, don’t you worry, I will be posting another post a little later. I wanted to post this to help spread the word about my boy J Money’s Love Drop over at Budgets Are Sexy! He has teamed up with Nate from It Starts With Us to bring you the very first Love Drop, where the goal is to help someone close to us in the blogging community who is struggling financially. If you have an extra $1, $5, $10, or whatever you chose to […] Read more »
Book Review & Giveaway: Give Me Get Me Buy Me
Give me, get me, buy me! Does that sound like someone you know? It sounds like a lot of people these days which is why this book is so perfect for today’s day and age. The entitlement mindset has to be one of the most self destructive mindsets one could adopt for themselves, yet many do. Today I am reviewing a book written by Donna Corwin and it is titled, Give Me, Get Me, Buy Me – Preventing or Reversing Entitlement in Your Child’s Attitude. Talk about stopping something before it starts, now’s the perfect time to turn things around. […] Read more »
Uncovering a Scam That Saved Us $1700!
As most of you know, we are selling our house. We are looking to become completely debt free and cannot wait to rid ourselves of this tremendous burden. With that said we are also looking for that one of a kind rental deal that pops up from time to time. There are special circumstances everywhere where people are looking for someone to care for their house in exchange for cheaper rent. We are aiming for rent between $800-$1000 per month. We responded to this ad: We have learned that when things sound too good to be true, they usually are, […] Read more »
Manage Your Money Week 4 – GET OUT OF DEBT!
Hello everyone! Welcome to week 4 of the Manage Your Money Challenge! Sorry about the delay for today’s post, but I have been having some serious internet issues and I think even some computer issues as well. EVERYTHING takes FOREVER! My internet will cut off on me in the middle of doing something and I have to wait sometimes for 10 minutes for it to reconnect. Last week was a great challenge and everyone who participated had great responses. Since I didn’t comment myself I thought I would let you know that I first said yes on an impulse purchase, […] Read more »
I Love You…Like A Blogger – Extraordinary Life Edition
Hello and welcome to another edition of I Love You…Like A Blogger. Be sure to check out earlier posts from this series at the bottom. For those of you that are not aware of this, I am part of a great network of bloggers that want to inspire others to achieve the extraordinary in life. (In marriage, life, parenting, finance etc.) Ordinary is no longer cool! We believe there is a lot to reach for, and we want you to follow us on our journey to do the same. You can also check us out over at Extraordinary-Life-Network.com. Below you’ll […] Read more »