The UK government has secured a promise from credit card issuers to give struggling borrowers a small reprieve, according to the Wall St. Journal. Under the plan, debtors who are currently in discussion with a not-for-profit debt advisory service will have collections activity against them suspended for 30 days, with the option of an extra [...]
With the holiday season upon us and many people looking for ways to save money, we’ve got just the ticket. Now, I don’t know about you guys, but personally I’d rather get gift cards to stores of my choice than someone trying to buy me something I won’t use or won’t like. I know some [...]
You may have noticed that I haven’t done a roundup in awhile and it isn’t because I haven’t loved everything out there to be read. Jonathan and I have made some changes on the schedule of posts and I won’t be doing the weekly roundups any more. But, we haven’t done one in awhile so [...]
Every month there’s a group of seven of us that tell some stories about the time in our lives related to that month’s topic. This month we’re talking about the poorest time in our lives. I had to really think about this a little because I’ve never been so bad off that I didn’t have [...]
I ran across an article at Kiplinger.com that really reflects everything I’ve ever learned about being in debt and so I thought it would be fun to talk about. Like the author of the Kiplinger article, I don’t have a lot of money, and unless I get that book deal or sell a script to [...]
