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12 signs your finances need service soon

May 6, 2014 By Mark

12 signs your finances need service soon

Do you wish your personal financial life had a check engine light? Wouldn’t it be nice if when things weren’t going right in your financial life that something would light up on your dashboard and tell you that you needed to get it fixed?

Filed Under: Budget, Debt, Emergency Fund, Hot, Trending Tagged With: credit cards, Debt, Emergency Fund, personal finance, saving

7 common money mistakes, including the mistakes I have made

May 1, 2014 By Mark Leave a Comment

7 common money mistakes, including the mistakes I have made

I wanted to share some common mistakes people make with their personal finances. I am not picking on anyone, believe me, I have made most of these mistakes myself. And if you find yourself in a situation where you are being affected by these money mistakes, I’m hopeful you can look to my experiences for a little inspiration and hope. I’ve been there myself– I am a recovering money mistake-maker.

Filed Under: Budget, Debt, Emergency Fund, Latest, Personal Finance, Trending Tagged With: budget, car payment, credit cards, Dave Ramsey, Debt, Emergency Fund, household budget, Money Mistakes, personal finance, saving

Only Cars with Car Payments have Car Payments

February 16, 2012 By Mark 1 Comment

Only Cars with Car Payments have Car Payments

Since I began my journey to live debt-free, I’ve come across a whole lot of naysayers who seem to think my new perspective on money and debt is flawed. People are always trying to influence me and debate with me on why I should be in debt, or why it is ok to go into […]

Filed Under: Debt, Personal Finance Tagged With: Avoid Debt, car payment, credit cards, debt-free living, Emergency Fund, Featured, financial independence, L. Tom Perry, LDS, My Journey

Cut Up Those Cards

October 20, 2011 By Mark Leave a Comment

Cut Up Those Cards

A major factor in achieving financial independence and converting your life into one that is free of debt is learning to live on less than you make. Mastering this skill is difficult and it requires discipline, planning and budgeting, and the ability to say NO to that voice inside your head screaming “I want that!” […]

Filed Under: Budget, Debt, Personal Finance, Saving Tagged With: Avoid Debt, budget, credit cards, debt-free living, LDS, My Journey, overspending

The Truth about Debt and Car Payments

October 18, 2011 By Mark Leave a Comment

The Truth about Debt and Car Payments

The first step, and the most important factor in debt elimination, is a firm commitment to reject debt… This change in attitude is not subtle or gradual but rather resembles the flip of a switch—it’s a resolute determination to make a clean break from the culturally accepted addiction to debt.   –Luke V. Erickson   […]

Filed Under: Avoid Debt, Budget, Debt, Debt-Free Living, LDS Tagged With: Avoid Debt, car payment, credit cards, debt-free living, Getting Out of Debt—For Good, LDS, millionaire next door, overspending, Thomas S. Monson

3 Reasons to Avoid Debt

February 17, 2011 By Mark 1 Comment

3 Reasons to Avoid Debt

Not only should we teach men to get out of debt but we should teach them likewise to stay out of debt. -Harold B. Lee   Possibly the most difficult part about becoming debt-free is finding the desire to do it. It is a lifestyle– meaning you’re going to have to make some very difficult […]

Filed Under: Avoid Debt, Debt-Free Living Tagged With: Avoid Debt, budget, car payment, credit cards, Dave Ramsey, Gordon B. Hinckley, Harold B. Lee, joseph b wirthlin, overspending, proverbs 22:7, Switch

How My Journey Began

February 8, 2011 By Mark 1 Comment

How My Journey Began

Recently married, stressed out of my mind, and living paycheck-to-paycheck with massive amounts of consumer debt weighing heavily on my shoulders, I began to search for some way (if there even was a way) I could gain control of the financial mess I had made for myself and my new wife. For years I played […]

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