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Repost of my First Post – Almost Two Year Anniversary at My Journey to Millions

August 5th, 2010 will be 2 years for My Journey to Millions!  To put that in perspective:

High School was 4 years College was 4 Years Law School was 3 years I have been Married 2 years and 2 months

For the next couple days I am going to re-post some REALLY old posts. 

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Evan by the Numbers July 2010

One of the main reasons that I started this blog was to hold myself accountable, since I truly believe that Accountability Leads to Success when dealing with personal finance and me.. it is even in my FIRST post from August 2008 it is right there in the first sentence of published work on this

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Evan By Numbers May 2010

One of the main reasons that I started this blog was to hold myself accountable, since I truly believe that Accountability Leads to Success when dealing with personal finance and me.. it is even in my FIRST post from August 2008 it is right there in the first sentence of published work on this blog!

I

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Don't Blame Others for Your Debt Get up and Do Something About It!

When is ignoring debt a good idea? Never.  What about blaming others for a debt? Never.   A buddy of mine called me today under the guise that he had a legal question.  So being the good friend that I am, I said shoot. 

Turns out he went to a lender for promises of a personal loan which would

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Goals and Objectives for 2010 – Help me Out!

The main reason I started this blog was to create a diary of My Journey and it didn’t take long for me to realize that accountability leads to success.  As such, every year I create a sort of Goals and Objectives, my latest one being my Goals and Objectives for 2009.   I then highlighted throughout the year how

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Four Words in Personal Finance that Piss me Off…and The Wife Says them All the Time

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I can’t explain it, but for some reason whenever The Wife says the words, “We Can’t Afford It” my blood boils.  I mean makes me argue something fierce.  Hell, even writing about it makes me use weird terms like “something fierce.”  The anger can actually compound if those words are,

Said to someone else;

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The Horror of Paying Just Monthly Minimum Payment to Credit Cards

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I think a lot of the people’s consumer debt stems from charging a large ticket item into “manageable” monthly minimum payments.  However, the problem that often arises is that a person only pays back the minimum.

If we take a credit card bill of $5,000 with an interest rate of 15% and the minimum

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Why is Layaway Becoming More Popular?

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Apparently CNBC is finding that more and more people are using layaway, and I just don’t get it! I have no recollection of using layaway, but then again I am only 27, and part of the generation where everyone had a credit card!  The Simpsons even had an episode where Santa’s Little Helper

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Advantages of Using a Prepaid Credit Card

There are many benefits to using a prepaid credit card.  A prepaid credit, also known as a secured credit card  is defined by bank rate as a credit card that, “…requires a cash collateral deposit that becomes the credit line for that account.”

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