I just got back from D.C. and it was a fantastic trip. The best part? The total cost of my D.C. on a budget trip? $253.06 Total for the Trip = $253.06 Here is the breakdown: Gifts for Others: $43.61 I picked up some stocking stuffers (yes, I buy stocking stuffers in February) and birthday…
While there are a lot of pros and cons about having a day job, one of the pros is definitely the employee benefits. Benefits like medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k company match, and paid time off. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have my job just because of the employee benefits, but the benefits…
I have a little story for you that got me a free drink at Starbucks. Over the holidays when I was visiting my family, we all went to Starbucks. We each ordered and paid for our drinks. I was surprised at how much mine cost as I had purposely picked something on the lower end…
Less Debt More Wine is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Now that the holidays are over if you didn’t get everything you’d hoped for you might find yourself doing a bit…
My debt repayment journey started by checking my credit score. I quickly realized how bad my credit was and knew I had to improve it. I went from having a score of 640 to 749 in less than a year. It now nears 800. There are a combination of things that resulted in raising my…
Less Debt More Wine is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. I heart DIY like nobody’s business, but I’ve also had some pretty bad DIY fails. So before you DIY there…
With the holidays fast approaching, the costs can add up, particularly with stocking stuffers. I’m not a huge presents person and when someone asks me what I want it is usually a small thing. Fun fact, when I was ten I asked Santa for a map of the world. True story. Anyway, one thing I have…
After reading brokeGirlrich‘s post on being stuck in neutral, I started thinking about all the ways in my life lately where I’ve felt stuck. I’ve had this I’m stuck feeling a lot lately and I think everyone does sometimes. It does not matter if you have debt or not. Once you are stuck it is…
When I first started learning to budget, I would try to cut a lot of costs so that I could put more money towards my credit card debt. The problem was I was cutting my expenses too much and would end up using the credit cards I was trying to pay off to pay for…
The first step in any debt repayment plan is to decide what order you are going to pay off your debt. You need to prioritize because if you try to tackle too many things at once you won’t get anywhere with any of them. There are two main methods used to prioritize your debt repayment. One focuses…