For a writer, it’s exciting to see your name and your blog on a nationally syndicated, prize winning news site. This week, (August 03, 2009), Mrs. Bankrupt was featured on MSN’s Smart Money Blog, “No health insurance? No good,” regarding my three part series on health care reform, (“Sick? No insurance. No doctor. You’re screwed”). [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Being cheap is not thrifty
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Giving credit to the credit challenged
While some people call it, “bad credit,” I prefer the kinder, gentler term, “credit challenged”. I feel it’s somewhat politically incorrect to label those with scores dipping off the credit bureaus charts with such a negative connotation. What’s truly “bad”, however, are the companies who take advantage of the credit struggling folk out there. Yes, [...]
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$chooltime i$ here
Taking a breather on credit card surveys for a minute, just to relate a few items from real life/real debt issues of this half crazy mother. As this is a finance blog it seems appropriate to add in the school issues that prevail each year. I know budgets for everyone, including schools are tight. For us single moms (or [...]
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