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Old 01-17-2007, 09:28 PM
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Default Re: Vote: Top 2006 $20 Challenges

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Originally Posted by scfr
I'm wondering if the nominees would be willing to write a brief summary of their $20 challenge for the year (their project or goals, and the results), or if they already did a year-end summary in their blogs, point us to that entry? Perhaps I'm just dense --- I want to vote but I'm having a bit of a tough time backtracking reading all of the entries. I joined the forum in September so didn't follow the challenges throughout the year.
Originally I started off saving for a house and then I decided to use the funds to pay off debt, and pay off debt is what I did. I paid off a total of 9 credit cards close to $6000 so I am happy and one student loan ($300). Some things I did was:

*added a buck for the days i did not spend any money
*If I spent money on things I did not need I matched that amount
*Rounded up all my change
*I pay bills online so what I would have paid in stamps I added to the challenge
* I also matched what I saved in coupons
basically that was it, I am just happy I have no more cc debt
Now for 2007 I will save for my first home and pay off my last student loan
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