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Debt repayment is not an expense

Posted 1 year 2 weeks ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Budgeting

Credit cards

Over and over again, in budgeting articles and even books on personal finance, I see sample budgets that include debt repayment as if it were an expense. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what debt is. Your debt repayment is not an expense, it's an internal transfer. The only part that's an expense is the interest. The rest of the money was spent some time in the past, when you incurred the debt.

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I've got my eye on you, WaMu

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Credit Cards

Going Crazy

What happens when you try to transfer funds to or from any account having to do with WaMu? Nothing good, apparently (thanks to Consumerist for that link). For all their talk about customer service, WaMu hasn't done too well for my husband and I over the last month.

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