We Did It - No More Student Loans!
As I heard the garage door open, I grabbed my papers and ran downstairs to meet my wife and two older kids. I put the two papers on top of the new box and went to the door to meet them. "Quick - come in, I have something to show you." As we all came into the kitchen, I said, "I have good news and I have great news, which do you want to hear first?" "Start with the good news, of course," my wife replied. Click here to continue reading…
This Week in the Blogosphere: Mini-Vacation Edition
We are off to a long weekend! We are traveling up to PA to visit friends and families and spend some time relaxing and having fun. We might be riding some roller coasters, too, but it’s more likely that we’ll be watching the kids not ride roller coasters.
This has been another hectic week. I spent a lot of time tweaking the blog and, of course, writing. Unfortunately, I still have a long list of items to add or upgrade. If you have any suggestions for plug-ins or widgets or processes, please let me know. The help I’ve gotten so far on this journey has been invaluable and it is much appreciated. Enough about me…here’s some weekend reading: Click here to continue reading…
Am I Stupid to Pay Off Our Student Loan?
First, I have to apologize - we are not allowed to use the word "stupid" in my house. It just slipped out - honest. 
Anyway, what I really meant to ask is "am I silly to pay off our remaining student loan?"
We have one student loan left
When we moved from the southwest back to the east coast, we had just completed paying off all of my student loans. That left us with (from highest to lowest balance) my wife’s student loans, a mortgage, and two car loans. As seen on my story page and the first checkpoint post , that was the point in time where I started to get really obsessed with paying off all of our loans and getting rid of everything except the mortgage. Click here to continue reading…
Checkpoint: My Current Financial Situation
Of course I had to do this - to lay out my current financial situation in general terms. Give me a break, this is a personal finance blog, right? And it is my blog, right? So, I get to lay out where I currently stand. I wanted to do this early on in the life of BFN so that I have something to refer back to as times goes by. So here we go… Click here to continue reading…
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