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Archive for September, 2008

 

Who Voted AGAINST the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Fortunately, the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights passed the House of Representatives on September 23rd, though it still must pass the Senate and the President. I’m glad it passed, but I’m also concerned about the 112 morons representatives who voted AGAINST this bill. What is wrong with these people? I don’t know if they [...]

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The Best From Finance and Fat – One Year Ago

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

From the Archives – September 2007 How Much Stuff Do We Need? I don’t think I fully understood it at the time, but I was on my way to realizing the evils of American Consumerism and how wasteful it all is. I still feel like I have too much stuff today, but thinking back one [...]

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Too Much Spam, New Way to Contact Me

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Apologies if you have recently sent an email to feedback@financeandfat.com, but I had to delete that email address. There was just too much spam and I didn’t want to dig through it anymore. I created a new address with Gmail, which has amazingly good spam filters. You can now contact me using financeandfat [at] gmail [...]

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Weekly Web Favorites – September 13, 2008

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

I participated in the Carnival of Personal Finance this week and I was lucky enough to be chosen as an editor’s pick with my Getting Out of Debt is Boring… post. Many thanks to Banker Girl for hosting this week. Here are a few of my favorites from the carnival: 5 Easy Steps to Kickstart [...]

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Monthly Update: Credit Card Debt Payoff

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Update: Looks like the Flash chart didn’t load properly at first- should be corrected now. Now that I’m 1 year into the blog, I’d like to get back to tracking my credit card debt payoff progress monthly. Included below is a chart of the progress I have made. The good news is that I have [...]

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