In my first writeup on the money experiment, I had talked about two things that had made deep cuts into my financial life. One was buying way more stuff than was needed a.k.a overextending that I have already talked about here. The other one was buying stuff by paying more. Honestly, this was one of [...]
Life is a beach and then you dive right? Well, tell you what? Loans are a bigger beach and diving is prohibited! The past 3 months or so, I have been trying really hard to get rid of my mammoth debt by cutting corners everywhere. I undertook the money experiment where I scraped about every [...]
This is the third and final installment in the 50 days and a 1000 dollars series. Here are Part I and Part II. Reuse, Reduce and Recycle – Best Friends Reuse, Reduce and Recycle sounds like a green mantra but today I’m going to show you how you can actually apply this mantra to your [...]
This is the second installment in the 50 days and a 1000 dollars series. Here are Part I and Part III. Mr. Overextender – The bad guy In my article yesterday on the Money Experiment, I spoke about how we had mismanaged our mortgage by deciding to use cash instead of a home loan. Other [...]
This is the first installment in the 50 days and a 1000 dollars series. Here are Part II and Part III. From the title of the post, you must be thinking this post is about a suspense thriller set to hit the theaters this Friday. Well, I’m sorry to disappoint, but this is a post [...]