Archive for July, 2009
Frugal Friday: Best Deals of the Week 7-26 through 8-1
Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday: Last Full Week in Kansas Edition! This time next week I will be on the road to visit my family in Indiana. In this edition, you will find some great deals that you will not want to miss out on! As always, make sure to check out [...]
What Come’s First? A Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence: Step 6–Pay Off Your Low-Interest Debt
Welcome to the fifth installment of Independent Beginning’s Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence inspired by Dave Ramsey’s “Baby Steps”. In the last installment, you learned about Step 5: Set Up College Funds. In this installment, you will learn about Step 6: Pay Off Your Low-Interest Debt Step 6: Pay Off Your Low-Interest Debt At this [...]
Frugal Friday: Best Deals of the Week 7-19 through 7-25
Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal Friday! Here, you will find the best deals and steals of the week from around the blogosphere! I hope you will be able to take advantage of some of these great offers. As always, make sure to check out my Saving Money page for more ways to save [...]
Frugal Friday–Best Deals of the Week 7-12 through 7-18
What a stressful week this has been! Work is really starting to take its toll on me. All I can say is thank goodness it’s Frugal Friday! With the weekend here, it is time to find the best deals of the week. As always, make sure to check out my Saving Money page for more [...]
What Comes First? A Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence. Step 5: Set Up College Funds
Welcome to the fourth installment of Independent Beginning’s Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence inspired by Dave Ramsey’s “Baby Steps”. Yesterday, you learned about Steps 3 & 4: Complete Your Emergency Fund & Set Up a Retirement Account. Today, you will learn about Step 5: Set Up College Funds. Step 5: Set Up College Funds By [...]
What Comes First? A Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence. Steps 3 & 4: Complete Your Emergency Fund & Set Up a Retirement Fund
Welcome to the third installment of Independent Beginning’s Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence inspired by Dave Ramsey’s “Baby Steps”. In the first installment, you learned about Step 1: Set Up an Emergency Fund, and in the second installment, you learned about Step 2: Pay Off Your High Interest Debts. Once you have completed these steps, [...]
What Comes First? A Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence. Step 2: Pay Off Your High Interest Debts
Welcome to the next installment of the Step-By-Step Guide to Financial Independence here at Independent Beginnings! Yesterday, I introduced Step 1: Set Up an Emergency Fund. In Step 1, you were encouraged to set up an emergency fund equaling $1000 or 1-month’s worth of expenses, whichever is higher. Once this preliminary emergency fund is set [...]
What Comes First? A Step By Step Guide to Financial Independence. Step 1: Set Up an Emergency Fund
Many college graduates find themselves in a very interesting, exciting, but sometimes overwhelming situation: they are actually making money. For the first time in their lives, money is coming in that is not going straight back to tuition. While this is definitely a good thing, it often leaves the new graduate wondering what in the [...]
Frugal Friday: Best Deals of the Week 7-5 through 7-11
It’s that time again–Frugal Friday! As always, this week’s edition features the best deals from around the blogosphere! Make sure you take advantage of them before they expire. Make sure to check out my Saving Money page for more ways to save money online and in-store. Also, I apologize for the low number of posts [...]
I Got a Scholarship!!!
What a surprise this afternoon when I logged on to my university’s financial center just to see that I have been awarded a half tuition scholarship for this coming school year! I guess good grades really do pay off! So, how can you earn a scholarship too? Check out these great places to look: Your [...]
