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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 year ago [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Web Favorites by Eden
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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in About, Administrative by Eden
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 Your Retirement [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Web Favorites by Eden
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 paid [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Credit Cards, Debt by Eden
Back Online
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Apologies for the down time. I made a foolish mistake while setting up a new code repository and version management tool- that’s just geek stuff if you aren’t sure what I’m talking about, it’s not important. I killed the site and couldn’t quickly fix it so I decided it would be a good time to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Administrative by Eden
Getting Out of Debt is Boring, or…
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
What I’ve learned in one year of my debt reduction plan
September 2008 marks one year since I started this blog and made my ‘official’ commitment to getting out of debt. I remember one year ago making a budget and seeing that my spending exceeded my income. I had large piles of debt and very little [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Debt by Eden
Monthly Weight Loss Report and a Wii Fit
Friday, August 29th, 2008
I decided to drop the weekly weight loss reports since it was hard to keep up with them and I don’t really think the weekly weight fluctuations are worth reporting anyway. From now on I’ll post my weight loss progress approximately once a month.
During my previous weigh-in on August 4th, I was 259.2 pounds (my [...]
