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My Financial Implosion: Finding Housing with Bad Credit
'œAnd homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.' '“ William Wordsworth Two weeks ago I wrote about how to avoid homelessness…
My Financial Implosion: Credit After Bankruptcy
'œIt is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.' '“ Anatole France After my bankruptcy was discharged in January of…
My Financial Implosion: Avoiding Homelessness
'œWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our…
My Financial Implosion: Better Decisions
'œIn any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do…
My Financial Implosion: When Expenses Exceed Income
'œAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.' '“ Charles Dickens Two weeks ago, my…
My Financial Implosion: Better Preparations
'œChance favors the prepared mind.' '“ Louis Pasteur Climbing out of the dual financial pits of foreclosure and bankruptcy wasn't just a matter of luck. Getting out of the…
My Financial Implosion: Better House
'œThe most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.' '“ Harold B. Lee By the fall of 2001, I'd lived…
My Financial Implosion: Better Business
'œThe critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do…
My Financial Implosion: Better Support
'œHere is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only…
My Financial Implosion: Better Relationships
'œLove does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.' '“ Antoine de Saint-Exupery Roughly a month after my trailer had been destroyed…