About Me

A Evans

28 year old female, married, have a 4 year old boy

Suze Orman "Save Yourself Plan": $200.22

Savings challenge:
$137

401K:
$350

Pension:
$7,700

Debt listed out:
Capital One Auto: 8% $10,299.15 (payoff 11/08)
ACS: 13% $42,065
Chase Stud. Loan: 9% 6,502

Short term goals:
1)credit cards, personal loans paid off by July of 2008 (done!)
2)car paid off by January 2009
3) investigate teacher loan forgiveness program to possibly cancel federal student loans
4) put coupon savings into savings challenge account
5)complete Suze Orman's "save yourself" plan and invest in a mutual fund in March 2009

Long term goals:
1)pay off student loans within 3 years

I've got a looooonnnnnnggggg haul ahead.

So I went to the library today...

March 17th, 2008 at 03:12 pm

And I checked out three financial books. I looked for Dave Ramsey, but our neighborhood library is rather small so I didn't see it on the shelf. I did, however, check out Suze Orman's "Women and Money", "Managing Debt for Dummies" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving your Credit Score." The latter two I'm not totally enthused about, but I should be boning up on everything I can. Going to the library instead of Borders was a good step for me. I went through my book shelves and found about 20 or so self help books that had I checked them out from the library, I wouldn't have a) wasted money b)felt the need to read them (in other words, they're all crap). Here's to learning, one of the greatest of all God's gifts to us!

Oh, and little man tate checked out an Easter book. We're pretty excited about reading that before bed time tonight Smile

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4 Responses to “So I went to the library today...”

Carolina Bound Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 03:49 pm

Did you look for The Tightwad Gazette? Even though it's dated now, it was the most helpful book to me.
scfr Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 04:57 pm

Checking books out from the library ... Way to go!!!

I agree completely about not feeling obligated to read a book when you've checked it out rather than purchasing ... not getting in to it? Not what you expected? Back it goes! No guilt.
rduell Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 05:57 pm

Ask them to get the books you want through an ILL (inter-library loan). They should be able to order it from another library at no cost to you. I would ask to make sure though. I think that some libraries charge for the postage. I know that our PA libraries do it at no charge.
aevans1206 Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 07:02 pm

Chicago is pretty fantabulous in terms of that. The little guy was just getting anxious and there was a homeless woman walking around complaining that someone had stolen all her stuff while sleeping at one of the tables. Laughing...I wanted to make a fast getaway! Thanks rduell!

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