Monthly Archive for: ‘January, 2009’

• 2009 Financial Goals and Debt Payoff

  We’re in the final stretch of paying off all of our consumer debt!  I can’t begin to tell you how many times we’ve fallen off the wagon but we’re back on board!  Even though I know how to budget and set up a plan, what’s [...]

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  Why Losing My Debit Card May Be A Blessing In Disguise

  Losing my debit card usually means a frantic call to my bank to have it replaced and then a planned trip to the branch to re-pin the code so that I don’t forget the one they send me.  Not this time around. About three weeks [...]

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  Oprah’s Best Life Financial Webinar w/ Suze Orman

  Oprah’s Best Life webinar featuring personal finance guru Suze Orman will be taking questions from viewers about money matters, including credit management and tips for making over your FICO credit score. The webinar will be live on Thursday, January 15 at 8 p.m. CST. If [...]

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• Girls Just Wanna Have Funds – Top 50 Get Out of Debt Blogs To Watch In 2009

  I was just notified by Evan Carmichael that Girls Just Wanna Have Funds has been listed as one of The Top 50 Get Out of Debt Blogs To Watch In 2009!!!  Feel free to go over and take a gander at the other fabulous blogs [...]

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• Meetup Recap: Visualizing Your Financial Success via SMART GOALS

  Our meetup was a success!  Special thanks to three new members who showed up with art supplies in hand ready to share with the rest of the group.  Everyone brought in their magazines, posterboards, markers and glue and got to work on their vision boards. [...]

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  Women And Life Insurance: 4 Reasons Why We Need To Be Prepared For The Inevitable

  The significant other of an acquaintance passed away and while I sent my condolences I couldn’t help but wonder how she would move through financially this year.  I kept thinking did he have life insurance?  Were they a two income household?  Did she depend on [...]

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  Do I Stay or Go? One Woman’s Struggle To Step Out On Her Own (Video)

  How likely are you to leave a bad marriage if you have no education or poor career prospects? I realize there may be other factors such as children, years put into the marriage and each party’s willingness to work things out. But let’s put that [...]

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• New Meetup: Visualizing Your Financial Success via SMART GOALS

  The DC Chapter of Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is having their first meetup of 2009!  Check it out: 2009 is upon us and we’ve talked about goal setting being an integral part of achieving financial success. Specifically SMART goals: Specific WHAT are you going [...]

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• Happy New Year and Happy 1st Blogaversary!

  photo credit: ginnerobot Well December 17th 2007 marked the day I got started with this blog as a personal finance blog for women but I wanted to celebrate it today.  I purchased this domain back in 2003 after reading the book Girls Just Wanna Have [...]

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