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Goals

Make Sure To Celebrate and Reward Yourself for Reaching Goals

by That One Caveman on November 11, 2008

Celebrate your financial achievements!

As we neared the payoff date for our car loan, my wife and I discussed how we wanted to celebrate the debt elimination.  It’s an important milestone and we decided that we needed to reward ourselves for our dedication to paying off our debts.  We’re still making up our minds, but I think we’re leaning [...]

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When Life Gives You The Opportunity to Start Over, Take It!

by That One Caveman on November 6, 2008

‘ll spare you the gory details, but last night was a draining experience. From 4-o’clock on, I was prepping for my first colonoscopy. Today, they’ll be going in and taking a look around the place and making sure everything is where it’s supposed to be and nothing where it’s not. Because of [...]

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Revisiting My 2008 Goals

by That One Caveman on June 30, 2008

Photo by: RBradburn

Just over six months ago, I laid out some goals and plans for 2008. In that time, my life has changed in huge ways more than once, including getting a promotion and finding out we’re going to have another child. All of these changes in such a short time have left [...]

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Money Spent On Diet Programs Is a Only a Waste If You Let It Be

by That One Caveman on May 21, 2008

For 5 years, until a few months ago, I was a member of Gold’s Gym. I started out eager, hired a personal trainer, and proceeded to burn away nearly 30lbs of total weight while adding some much-needed muscle mass. I believe I spent a little over $1,000 on the personal training sessions on top [...]

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Big Changes Coming to the Caveman Household

by That One Caveman on April 28, 2008

Saturday morning, awoken this morning by a screech. I had intended to sleep in a bit since I had a long week, but this wasn’t my alarm going off and it wasn’t a car outside. No, this screech came from the master bathroom.
Waking up to that kind of noise is distressing, at the very least. [...]

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The Power of the Snowball

by That One Caveman on March 10, 2008

Update: I have posted a template for setting up your own snowball forecast.
Seeing the snow outside my window got me thinking about Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball concept. After all the reading I’ve done about snowballing one’s debt, I knew I was going to implement the same method in knocking out all of our non-mortgage [...]

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