Saving lots of Bank: Who’s Your Mary Poppins? Who doesn’t love the delightful story of Mary Poppins! She comes into to your life, organizes and cleans with a song, takes you on exciting adventures in your mind, and teaches you the value of flying a kite. Why she’s practically perfect in every way. A Spoonful...Continue reading
Debt Help: Wisdom for the Ages In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “Wealth is the ability to fully experience Life”. So if that is a definition of wealth, what is debt? Ask anyone who’s living with debt and they’ll tell you, “Debt is watching your life decrease in value with no means to stop...Continue reading
Pack Up Your Troubles and Hit the Road: A Debt Journey For many that is the dream. Packing a bag and hitting the road, no real destination in mind. After all, the adventure lies in the journey. So, what is stopping your dream from happening? Oh yeah, reality. Bills. Work. Family. Responsibilities. That stuff. Grab...Continue reading
Little Debt on the Prairies Remember the classic TV show, Little House on the Prairie? It was the adventures of Laura Ingalls, or Half Pint as she was known, and her family and friends in Walnut Grove. And at the end of the hour her problems were always solved with a little sage wisdom from...Continue reading
Spring Break: Your Permanent Vacation from Debt Spring Break is a time when many families take a vacation, get away from it all, and leave their winter woes behind. For a week or two anyway. The kids are excited, days are filled with family friendly activities, and the biggest worry is “did you pack enough...Continue reading
Recycling Your Debt You wash out your tin cans and place them in the proper bins. You sort your papers from your plastics, compost your table scraps, and haul all of your recycling to the curb. You do this because you want to leave a better world for your children. You want to undo the...Continue reading
Ethics and Integrity in Debt Management There are some words, like ETHICS and INTEGRITY that get thrown around so often that they start to lose their meaning. Information has become infotainment, and journalism has become propaganda. Everybody has an agenda. It’s gotten to the point that people have become desensitized to anyone claiming to hold...Continue reading
Debt Renovations: Make Over or Tear Down Home renovations are never fun, no matter how creative or handy you think you are. Whether you’re undertaking a weekend project to build a deck or you’re doing a complete over haul of your home, it’s expensive, inconvenient, and stressful. Tighten Your Tool Belt The thing about home...Continue reading
Is your Debt is Writing Cheques your Reality Can’t Cash? Here’s the thing about clichés, there’s one to fit almost every occasion. A cliché is an overused phrase that lacks imagination or original thought. We hear them so often we assume they’re part of the everyday conversation. Though uninspired, we lean on the use of...Continue reading
Quality of Life and other casualties of Debt Quality of Life is defined as the standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group. When you’re living in debt, Quality of Life is hard to maintain and as your debt grows, the quality of your life diminishes. Quality over Quantity How do...Continue reading
