2007 October

Archive for October, 2007

Coupons, Coupons, and more Coupons!

To be honest, I’m not much of a coupon clipper. I don’t go through the Wednesday newspaper scouring for coupons for specific products to cut out. I used to, but the problem was that I would forget that I had them or would forget to use them, or if I did remember to use them, […]

Reducing Mortgage Debt: Paying down mortgages faster - a newer way - part I

We’ve all seen amortization tables, right? It’s quite sad really. Let’s take a $200,000 P&I mortgage with a 7% interest rate. The payments for this loan would be approximately $1300 per month. In the first year, you will have paid about $15,600 in mortgage payments. Out of this, less than $2000 will go towards your […]

New Uses for Old Items

I hate to throw things away; unless of course they smell. If someone at my office was looking for an article written five years ago, I probably have it. If it’s a piece of clothing, I’m sure that it will eventually come back in style or I WILL eventually lose that extra 10 pounds and […]