There’s little question that student loans can be one of the more difficult debt burdens that a person can have.  The cost of tuition is rising each year, and the rates seem to be following suit.  Many college graduates are finding themselves with a degree that cost as much as their first house is likely [...]

Any good anti-debt blogger (like me!) will be able to tell you all kinds of ways to pay off your debt.  There’s methods, and tips, and even a certain way to hold your nose. Ok, maybe I’m kidding about that tips bit.  Or is it the nose part?  I’m confused.  Seriously though.  There’s a debt [...]

I often get asked why I started this site.  And my response is always that it was a great way for me to share some of the things that I was learning as my wife and I struggled with our debt.  All of the things that we were learning through books, trial-and-error, and online that [...]

Credit card debt, mortgage loan, car payments, tuition…all of these add up to your debt and debt means stress in any economic environment. Like a lot of folks, you probably haven’t defaulted on your debt but it’s hard to keep up on and while there are a lot of plans to pay down cards by [...]

If you have tens of thousands of dollars to pay off, gazelle intensity can be exhausting. You can easily begin to feel sorry for yourself and lament all of the things you have to give up and sacrifice when paying down debt. We started our journey to be debt free on October 20, 2011. Our [...]

Beating Broke Rule: Spend your Bonuses wisely. Every year, many of us are lucky enough to receive some sort of bonus from our employer.  (If you’re self employed, that’s bonus enough. )  And when we do, the inevitable question arises.  What do I do with the money?  And then, how to budget for it? The [...]

One of the reasons that I started this site was because it forces me to learn new personal finance skills.  Sometimes, the tree is sitting there in the forest and you need someone to point it out and make it stick out from the forest.  The more skills that you learn in any given subject, [...]

The introductory and balance transfer 0% interest rates on some credit cards can be a very enticing benefit. The fact that we see it offered so often proves that it works as a marketing ploy for the credit card companies. Some people take advantage of the offers and do what they call “0% rate arbitrage”. [...]