Heather’s post about the way we deal with debt influencing & shaping our children’s perception of money, got me thinking.
I have a 3 year old daughter, and she’s starting to become financially aware. As an example, only a couple of days ago she was playing with my wallet (as she is wont to do) and [...]

I’ve been reading the advice of some of the debt “gurus”. Some of it is great, much of it similar to mine, all of it given with good intention. To be frank, I found some of it distinctly uninspiring.
There are different ways to get out of debt. I see the advice to live frugally (beans [...]

Capt. Nick Sloan was $68,021.35 in debt early in 2007, when he decided he needed to do something ‘radical’ to get out of debt…
He volunteered to go to Iraq.
Sloan, 26, a captain in the US Air Force, was stationed in Colorado Springs and could see a series of bad decisions in his financial life. So [...]

Millions of us are in the grip of a ‘spendemic’ - piling up debts on credit cards and overdrafts. Locked into an endless cycle of debt, borrowing and spending, from which few of us manage to escape.
If this sounds familiar, here are some of the top reasons we get into debt:
1. Trying to Keep up [...]

I’ve just been asked by the nice people at DebtCC to do an interview about The DebtFree Playbook. They also asked me to review their community site on this blog. Well, I confess that when they first asked me to do it, I had no idea what their site was about. A community about debt? [...]