The beginning

This is the beginning of my blog experience. The purpose of this journal will be to collect my thoughts, partly to inspire myself, partly to go back and remind myself of interesting things.

I currently belong to two financial sites with subscriptions. My plans are to drop both of them when the subscription runs out.

One of them is Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover at http://www.mytotalmoneymakeover.com and the other is Mary Hunt's Cheapskate Monthly newsletter site at http://www.Cheapskatemonthly.com both of which are devoted to debt free living. The Ramsey site is based on his nationally syndicated talk show. You can download the show in MP3 format from the pay site, or you can listen to it for free at http://www.daveramsey.com

The Hunt site has her newsletter all the way back to the late 1990s.

Ramsey's site is $9 a month, and Hunt's is $12 a year. In this process of becoming debt free, I have discovered frugal living, thanks to The Complete Tightwad Gazette, by Amy Dacyczyn. So, I'm dropping anything that costs money and can be done for free or on the cheap.