The Hustle of Sistah Ant

it’s paid off!

CAR’S PAID OFF! CAR’S PAID OFF! CAR IS PAID OFF!!!!! I have been looking forward to this for a long time, and now that the big day is here, I’m just going to be happy for a minute. I’d like to take the money I was spending on the car [...]

the wisdom of my youth

You know, when I bought my car, I said to myself, “Get what you want and choose wisely, because you’re taking your kids to the first day of school in this car.” I wanted a new car for myself because my fifteen-year-old car was at that point where I started having to replace parts here and [...]

head in the game

From my latest Net Worth update: I have fantasies of paying my car off before October 2011, when it’s scheduled to be paid off. My other fantasies include paying off my $2,900 student loan by the end of 2011. You know what’s keeping me from doing that? See that $2,234 [...]

how it’s going

From my November 2010 Net Worth update: “Spent a lot of money on the wedding, but we paid for everything up front after saving for it. It kept us (and me) from making as much debt reduction and savings as we otherwise would have, but hey, we didn’t go into debt for [...]

competing priorities

From this month’s Net Worth Update: “I did OK, I guess. It’s home improvement season, so I’m not sure how much progress I’ll be making in the coming months. We got some landscaping done (paid in full up front), and we bought some furniture (No money down, no interest for 12 months – we plan to [...]

hate mail

So when I got home tonight, a letter from one of the companies that has issued me one of my credit cards. Let me let you in on my credit situation: I have four credit cards. The first is my first card from college, that I got because I wanted a free candy [...]

Broke.

You know why I’m broke? Bad planning and overuse of my AMEX. If I would think farther ahead, I would realize that racking up $500 of charges that have to be paid off right before graduation season is a bad, bad thing for my cash flow. You’d think I’d have gotten better at planning [...]

uneasy

Did you ever get the feeling that it has been too long since you looked at your bank balance? I’ve been doing the no-checkbook-register thing for a few months now, and it’s really hard. I went on a short trip recently and though we had a budget, I was often thinking about whether or [...]

Let’s try this

How about I try blogging on the go with my phone? This may make it easier to come back…

pleasant surprise

I updated my net worth (with a few minor details yet-to-be-updated, like the big reduction in my student loan amount and the actual amount of my stocks’ value) and lo and behold, there was a $6,000 net worth increase sitting there staring me in the face! Wow. Praise God! This progress, despite my newest material acquisitions [...]