Nine Reasons to Become Debt Free
 
 
To stay emotionally healthy.
 
Long after the pleasure of the purchase is gone, the emotional baggage of repayment goes on and on.  If you decide to go ahead and sell the item you were so excited about owning, it is worth a fraction of what you originally […]

Nine Reasons to Become Debt Free
 
Can you become debt free?  Yes!  Yes, you absolutely can!  Why should you desire to become debt free?  What should motivate you to stay within a planned budget, pay off debt and keep it paid off?  Of course, we could list literally hundreds of reasons, but here are […]

Why Do People Go Into Debt?
 
Why do people go into debt?  Usually it is from ignorance of the eventual financial consequences.  True enough, sometimes, unforeseen disasters occur that are completely out of a person’s control.  This may include the loss of a job or gigantic health and medical bills that come out of […]

Chartery On Debt
 
 
 
“Debt haunts the mind; a conversation about justice troubles it; the sight of a creditor fills it with confusion; even the sanctuary is not a place of refuge. The borrower is servant to the lender. Independence, so essential to the virtues and pleasures of a man, can only be maintained by […]

Ralph Waldo Emerson On Debt

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

”Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, […]