I found some resonance, today, with a The Quiet Before The Storm by Ciaran at Chance Favors. He writes about the emotions that come with writing a blog. In the comments, I noticed a number of other people have talked about the evolution of their blog, as well as finding its ‘voice’.

This blog was started to support customers of The DebtFree Playbook, initially. Some of those people were writing about their experiences of debt and successes they were having. We hit some snags offline and ground to a halt, to start again this year, just 6 weeks ago. This time, although we still wanted to be in support of those people, we wanted to restrict the writing to just two of us. How quickly things change… Continue reading →

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This week has really been the week we discovered the fun and power of blog carnivals. We had a couple of shy, tentative entries before. Like everything new, it takes a little bit of courage. I’ve done the submissions and I didn’t really know if we would be accepted to the really good, established carnivals or if they were some secret club you had to work really hard to join. Continue reading →

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Just read an interesting post over at The Money Blog entitled “Why do you hate people in debt?” And it got me thinking of the reactions people have towards debt, towards debtors, and towards money in general.

I’ve been in debt, and I’ve seen a whole range of responses when I told people that I was struggling with my money issues. Looks of genuine surprise, disappointment, dismay, mild contempt, open hostility and even sneaking admiration…

I think people’s reactions said more about their own attitudes to money, than my inability to stay solvent at the time.

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It’s spring, and the days seem brighter. We’re shaking off the slumber off winter and moving a little quicker. Flowers are starting to peek out and all seems good with the world… Until you open the newspapers, turn on the TV or catch up with some newsfeeds!

What is going on? Debt is becoming a bigger issue by the day. There are tent camps outside Los Angeles; banking ripples in New York; and Northern Rock (the bank involved in the sub-prime debacle, and recently nationalised by the UK Government to bail it out) is expecting to set new records in house repossessions this year…. I could go on.

Becoming debt free seems like a harder task each day. So we wanted to bring you a glimmer of hope. Continue reading →

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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 he decided to do something about it. In May he arrived for duty in Baghdad.

“I came to the realization that I was so far over my head, I had to do something drastic to increase my cash flow,” Captain Sloan said in a telephone call from the Green Zone, where he received extra pay and had minimal living expenses. “Iraq did that.”

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