Debt to Dreams

This is another catch up post intended to bring my fianicial measures up to date. I am about 4 months behind but I hope to be caught up by the end of the month.
Here are my borrowing costs ending June 30, 2008:

We had been doing quite well at keeping our borrowing cost down [...]

I have come to the realization that these posts about obscure details of our family’s personal finances are not very high yield.
They take time to organize, time to post and they are definitely overkill when we don’t have anything interesting to report with our finances.
But.. we are already halfway finished [...]

Here are our April costs, 2 months late. When I ran the numbers it was nice to see that we didn’t spend any money in April on extra bank charges(late fees, finance charges, etc..)
Here is the break down for the month ending in April:

My thoughts on this category:

My wife and I have been [...]

I apologize for being late with these posts. I remain dedicated to this blog and continue to find bits of time to keep up with drafts, etc… Unfortunately/fortunately I don’t sit at a computer at work and thus I am always 24-48hrs(a week perhaps) behind the latest news of the blogsphere. [...]

This is my third post in this series detailing exactly how much my wife and I spend each month financing our family. When I made the list I was surprised by the variety of different ways we spent our hard earned dollars financing the modern banking system.
At this point, I am almost appalled [...]

I made an attempt last year to get this series off the ground. However life got in the way of digging through a years worth of financial statements so I put it on hold for 2008.
The focus of this series is on how much of my hard earned income is being used [...]

Since one of the “features” of this blog is the vast amount of debt I carry, I thought I should do a better job of detailing how much it “costs” me each month to finance my educational debt and my cost of living.
The key word in that sentence is Finance. The [...]