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Bye Bye Cable

This was the first week we did not meet with our coaches, and I still feel like we are on a really great path. We have been going over and over our bills trying to figure out what we could lower, and one thing we realized is that cable is a luxury. So we did it, we canceled our cable. I thought it was going to be very hard not having cable but we took a lot of the advice we got from the group meeting, such as Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Epix, and more, and found out it was actually a great choice. I honestly sit back and ask myself why we ever paid for cable in the first place.                Now we are just focusing on putting the money we would have been spending on cable toward our debt, and really working hard on lowering our debt as much as possible. We are also really working hard on increasing our savings and I would say we are off to a great start. Posted by Molly Bennett, February 20, 2012 at 9:59 AM | Add a Comment ShareThis

Credit Cards Destroyed :)

We have somewhere around $10,000 dollars in credit card debt. What's funny is each year this amount remains the same. So, today we closed them and shredded them. Wow . . . what a feeling. It's scary because credit cards are what has saved us for the last 3 years . . . or have they? What an exciting feeling because we know now those balances have all been consolidated and will only go down. This is a step we simply could not have done without the help of our coaches and the help of this program. Just another small step toward financial success! We continue to meet weekly with our coach to make sure we are staying on track. It's Molly's and My One year anniversary on the 12th! We had plans to go to Cancun . . . ha ha . . . not gonna happen. Bummer :( Until next time... The Bennett Family Posted by Riki Bennett, February 7, 2012 at 8:36 PM | Add a Comment | Read Comments (1) ShareThis   Comments     Great job on cutting up the harmful safety net called credit cards, now you can be each others safety net. The Yahayas also have ATT for our internet. It was a promotion at 24.99 which if you go into an ATT store they might be able to make you a better deal than what you have. We find that direct customer service tends to get results although it is not as convenient as signing up over the phone or online. Posted by The Yahayas, February 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM | Suggest Removal

Time to lower the extras......

Only a month into this program and it has already been such an eye opening experience. We are truly grateful to have such amazing coaches, who give us so much great advice and are extremely supportive.  This week we had our first group meeting, which we feel was extremely helpful, and also very nice to get to meet all the other families and hear their stories. We talked about ways to save money, in a lot of different areas, everything from bills, to wants and needs, to entertainment. We feel that we got a lot of great advice from all the families and the group leaders.  But now comes the hard part--deciding what advice we are going to take, and what we are going to leave behind. We are really going to focus this up coming week on how we can lower some of our utilities and maybe eliminate some of our extra expenses.              On a good note, we already have a great start on lowering our eating out bills. We have been making our lunch/dinner for work everyday and sticking to not buying any other food while at work. It is a lot of work but we really are pushing hard and putting so much effort into this. We just wanted to say "Thank you" to everyone at the group meeting for all the great advice.  Posted by Riki Bennett, February 5, 2012 at 7:13 PM | Add a Comment ShareThis

Time to start "making" some changes

This week, we broke down all of our expenses and took a closer look at what we are really spending our money on. As we thought, the majority of our money is already going toward bills. However, we have plenty of room for improvement when it comes to eating out. In fact . . .we didn't go to the grocery store even one time in the month of January. That is going to help us a ton moving forward knowing this information so early on.  Time to put on the chef hat, pull out the recipe books and get to cooking. :) Have any good recipes to get us started? Share them with us!!!! Posted by Riki Bennett, January 28, 2012 at 1:03 PM | Add a Comment | Read Comments (1) ShareThis   Comments     I was a big fan of this cook book starting out. Easy, basic, but tasty meals: http://www.amazon.com/Man-Can-Plan-Great-Meals/dp/1579546072 Good luck! Posted by Mike, February 2, 2012 at 9:59 AM | Suggest Removal

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