A month without credit cards - end thoughts

Posted by chica with issues under money issues

I thought it was going to be easy going a month without using the rewards credit card. HA!
It was crazy hard!
At first, I almost used the credit card by accident just out of habit. (that should tell me something)
Then I realized that I was in some crazy kind of denial about the state of my [...]

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A month without credit cards, week four update

Posted by chica with issues under money issues

Well, the month of December is almost over. How did I do?
FAIL
It’s sad, I know. But I used a credit card twice in the past few days.  Let me explain…
Last week I realized just how tight my money is. Since I have been doing the 9 to 6 for a weekly paycheck and focusing on [...]

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A shocking view of my parents impending financial disaster

Posted by chica with issues under family & relationship issues, money issues

I did not grow up in a wealthy family. We were not poor either. I guess we were average. We lived in a small town about 30 miles from the city. My mom did not work while I was living there, instead she took care of me and my two younger brothers. My father was [...]

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A month without credit cards, week three update

Posted by chica with issues under money issues

**This was supposed to auto-post 12/23  but somehow I managed to change the date of the auto-post to 2009!**
Well, I am still making it on no credit cards so far this month. Have I mentioned yet how it is harder than it seems?
In looking at my finances for the rest of the month I have [...]

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I’m a superstar at Fabulously Broke in the City today

Posted by chica with issues under Uncategorized

Check it - FB at Fabulously Broke in the City has posted an interview with me on her site today. Reading it I realize that I am terribly long-winded and wordy! I did however get a chuckle at the screencap for the blog that she used. You can read it at Interview: One Snarky Chica [...]

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