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From Punch Debt In The Face
January 6, 2012 at 3:38 am
Last night was my last one with the wifey before my seven week trip to Korea. Obviously quality time with Girl Ninja trumps time blogging. I’ll see you sexy readers on the ... (more)

Net Worth: January 2012

From Punch Debt In The Face
January 5, 2012 at 4:25 am
No better way to ring in the new year then by giving you guys a Net Worth update right? Twenty Eleven was great to the Ninja household. Our NW rose a little over $45,000 during ... (more)

The one way savings account

From Punch Debt In The Face
January 4, 2012 at 3:39 am
On November 30th, 2010 Girl Ninja and I had exactly $2,824.65 in our savings account (this does not include our Emergency Fund). Between November 2010 and September 2011, this ... (more)

A $14,000 raise.

From Punch Debt In The Face
January 3, 2012 at 4:28 am
As you are already aware, Girl Ninja and I made the move to Seattle this last summer (We miss all you beautiful peeps in San Diego). We found a great little mother-in-law apartment ... (more)

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 30, 2011 at 4:28 am
So last night, after watching the most exciting/frustrating football game of my life (UW vs Baylor), I went outside with my future brother-in-law/former college roommate and smoked ... (more)

I’m not a weatherman, but I have a forecast.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 28, 2011 at 3:01 am
We were out to dinner with some good friends (a married couple) last night and we started talking about life. They will be moving back to Washington this summer, after spending ... (more)

Holiday High.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 26, 2011 at 3:05 am
Don’t have a post for you today since I had so much fun yesterday with family I forgot all about this little blog! I hope you had just as much (or more) fun than me ’cause ... (more)

Our begging worked! Girl Ninja wrote a post :)

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 22, 2011 at 4:30 am
Applying to a private school was something I said I would never do. I grew up in public school (until college) and saw value in the education and experience I had. Private school ... (more)

A (Financial) Christmas Carol

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 21, 2011 at 1:56 am
Guest post by moneysupermarket.com Don’t you just hate it when Christmas draws closer each year and all the personal finance blogs start with their laboured and tenuous Christmas-related ... (more)

Dying sucks.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 20, 2011 at 3:56 am
Life insurance is arguably the most boring personal finance topic known to man. In fact, it’s so boring I’ve only talked about it once before. It’s time to try ... (more)

Are you banking on Social Security?

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 19, 2011 at 4:28 am
Are you setting yourself up for self-sufficiency? Who do you rely on for survival? Do you know what you need to do today, to have ‘enough’ 20, 30, or 40 years from ... (more)

Lifestyle inflation

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 16, 2011 at 4:19 am
In a little over month I will receive a small raise at work to the tune of $2,447. While I’m stoked to be getting any raise at all, let’s be real, it’s not a ... (more)

We are getting shut down!!!!

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 15, 2011 at 3:00 am
If you’ve been following the news lately I’m sure you’ve heard the federal government is due to shut down on Friday at midnight as the stopgap funding runs dry. ... (more)

Things I want to punch in the face: Luck

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 14, 2011 at 4:19 am
Look, I hate black licorice, hipsters, and smelly people, but nothing, I MEAN NOTHING, gets under my skin more than someone calling me lucky. I hate, hate, hate it. For realsies! Here ... (more)

Is 30 > 15 or 15 > 30?

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 13, 2011 at 3:59 am
Did you know thirty is greater than fifteen? Oh you did? Well, then why do so many people proclaim a 15 year mortgage is better than a 30 year one. I’ll tell you why, because ... (more)

Double Standard

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 12, 2011 at 3:42 am
I have two investment vehicles established for retirement, My Roth IRA and my 401K. I don’t play favorites with these two accounts and if it was within my control, I would ... (more)

How do you define your worth?

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 9, 2011 at 3:49 am
During one of my Net Worth updates  a few months back, one of you made a comment along the lines of  “I don’t like to calculate my NW. I am more valuable than a ... (more)

Real or fake.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 8, 2011 at 2:43 am
Remember how I vented about my frustrations with retail stores jumping the gun on Christmas 2011? Costco had decorations up before Halloween. It was craziness and I wanted no ... (more)

Gambling (verb) = a quick way to become poor

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 7, 2011 at 3:07 am
So I was in Vegas this last weekend for the Rock & Roll Half Marathon. No, I didn’t run, but my brother did. Girl Ninja was in Denver for the weekend visiting a college ... (more)

Life after debt

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 6, 2011 at 4:33 am
About once a month I like to post up a submission from a Punch Debt In The Face reader so you can get a feel for how other people are doing. Last month’s story focused on ... (more)

Net Worth: December 2011

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 5, 2011 at 4:56 am
The holidays are upon us and that means our net worth increases will likely be hindered. The markets had a good run last week so that’s helped us out a bit, but not enough ... (more)

The best thing about being NOT broke.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 2, 2011 at 4:44 am
Over the last seven days I’ve purchased seven round trip plane tickets, and I might be purchasing two more. Alaska Airlines has been running some crazy deals lately and ... (more)

$10,000 and a trip to Korea.

From Punch Debt In The Face
December 1, 2011 at 2:48 am
What does $10,000 and a trip to Korea have in common? Absolutely nothing, but if you follow me on twitter you’d have a pretty good idea why I bring these two topics up. On ... (more)

It’s complicated

From Punch Debt In The Face
November 30, 2011 at 4:16 am
Let’s get right to the point today shall we? I go out of my way to ensure my personal finances are significantly more complicated than they should be. In fact, I’d ... (more)

Here’s a tip: Don’t Tip.

From Punch Debt In The Face
November 29, 2011 at 3:57 am
I don’t know if tipping is as popular across the globe as it is here in the good ol’ USA, but it seems like I can’t even fart without owing someone money for ... (more)