2008

My Wife Is Back To Work

My wife is working again. I know, it was only a little while back that I said we were moving to one income; that my wife would be staying home to help raise the kids. That hasn’t changed. So how is she working? Through a friend of hers she found an opportunity to teach test [...]

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National Debt Goes Off The Charts!

by Glen Craig

Can the national debt be measured?!? Well, it’s running out of space on the National Debt Clock located in NYC. Last month our national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time. The dollar sign on the clock was replaced with a “1″ and a “$” was adhered next to it. You can check the [...]

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Festive Link Love Carnivality #28

by Glen Craig

There’s just a few days left to enter my contest for a chance to win one of three Amazon gift cards ($75, $15, $10)! Basically just answer the question: What will you be doing with your finances in the next year? Hurry up, the contest ends October 15th! If you aren’t already following me via [...]

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I’m Saving By Bringing Lunch To Work

by Glen Craig

So as you know, we’re living off of one income now as my wife took off from her education job to stay home to raise the kids. We’ve been looking for all sorts of ways to cut expenses to make my salary stretch a little farther. One thing I’ve started to do is bring lunch [...]

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Best Financial Advice You’ve Received

by Glen Craig

There’s a meme going around that I saw at The Digerati Life who got it from Sound Money Matters. It’s basically asking everyone to answer: What’s the best financial advice you ever received? Probably one of the best pieces of advice I received was from my dad. When I go my forst credit card he [...]

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Festive Link Love Carnivality #27

by Glen Craig

Today’s is the first day of my second year! Help me celebrate and you can win one of three Amazon gift cards! My contest is running through Oct 15th. Check out the article for details. Don’t forget about MiB Smarter Money’s contest either! And we’re not the only one’s holding a contest! MoneyNing is giving [...]

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Happy Birthday To Me!

by Glen Craig

photo credit: Jeff Kubina One year ago today I decided to start up a personal finance blog. I thought until my brain hurt and came up with the title Free From Broke. I started it up on Blogger with a .blogspot address. Check it out. Looks a little different, doesn’t it? On October 22nd I [...]

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We Got Our Insurance Deductible Back

by Glen Craig

If you remember in August we got into a car accident. Fortunately I called the police and had the officer file a car accident report. As a result, a full report of the accident was on file for my insurance company to use in their case against the person who hit us. If we didn’t [...]

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What If The Economic Bailout Plan Works?

by Glen Craig

The $700 billion economic bailout package has been the talk of the town lately. A lot of that talk is how necessary it is but even more talk of how bad it will be. Why should the government bail out investment firms and such because they made some bad decisions? I didn’t take a bad [...]

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