Welcome Visitors
Thanks to savvy saver for hosting this week’s carnival of personal finance.
To the new readers: I write about my adventures in making money work for me instead of me always working for it. I have worked for several years to get beyond some bad money habits and financial disasters. A few weeks ago, I married the partner, and my networth dropped 100% further than it was before. So now, we are working on getting out from under our debt and finding a way to live within our means.
The name of the blog comes from the fact that the partner has a love for metal and I noticed that selling property was calculated not by dollars but by weight instead. He’d come home and tell me how he sold 2,000 pounds or how he helped 5,000 pounds find a new home. His inventory of large machines has been fading as our savings have been increasing.
Since we started dating, he has managed to drop his credit card debt by $10,000 and has made lots of little changes to help stay in line. On this site I simply catalog our attempts and failures at making more positive progress in getting our spending under control and our debt wiped out.
I will be starting a new series next month about tackling your credit report and what you can and should do to try to clear up any inconsistencies or challenge negative information that just might go away if you do. My credit score is very sad, I’ve not rebuilt any credit in the past few years and I’m really behind in getting this taken care of. But, if we’re going to attempt another home buying adventure next year, together, then I need to get my act together so I don’t pull down his great credit score too far.
Thanks for reading and enjoy some of the other fine blogs listed this week.