Getting Your Money’s Worth       Before making a purchase, pause for a minute to ask yourself a questions.  Is it worth what I’m paying for it?  This is where spending money becomes a real skill.  Worth or value is often hard to determine.    Value in this case means the quality of the […]

Quotes On Debt – Part 4     If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. – Earl Wilson Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies. – James H. Aughey   The man who never has money enough to pay […]

Quotes On Debt – Part 3     A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation. – Charles Caleb Colton   Debt is a prolific mother of folly […]

Quotes On Debt – Part 2     A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. – Robert Green Ingersoll If I owe Smith ten dollars, and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith. – Robert Green Ingersoll At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about “a public debt […]

More Benjamin Franklin On Debt       ‘Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.”   ”To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”     Your thoughts on this subject?  Your comments appreciated!