Comments on: That’s not a Knife…

By: Sally Parrott Ashbrook

Sally Parrott Ashbrook — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:51:01 +0000

Sadly, many of the families I deal with DON’T realize they won’t get sent to debtor’s prison.

Good post. I’ll remind my families to look at the small pictures as well as the big one at a budgeting class next week.

By: thatedeguy

thatedeguy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:07:37 +0000

I’m pretty sure that I knew that debtor’s prison doesn’t exist anymore. I threw that in as a bit of a comedic relief point.

By: Swintah

Swintah — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:20:29 +0000

Debtor’s prison hasn’t existed since the mid 1800’s in the US and UK. No one has to worry about debtor’s prison. Have you considered fact checking?

By: the Prince of Thrift

the Prince of Thrift — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:42:44 +0000

Very true. I recently seen in my local paper that cox.net was raising rates on their Kansas customers. I called cox up and lowered my internet service to the cheapest (value) service. I already have the cheapest TV service they offer (and that was the only service that didn’t increase). When I told them it was because of their outlandish rate increase, they told me that they hadn’t raised rates in 2 years. At this point I became irritated, and told them I hadn’t had a pay raise in 3 years. That pretty much shut them up, and they said, “OK, I will put this through.”
I swear, these big corporations making millions of dollars try to act like they are so poor, and it’s the consumers they are ripping off, who are really the poor ones.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:57:38 +0000

So true. My wife and I have “batten down the hatches and suck it up plan” always waiting in the wings.

In times of great financial peril, we are prepared to sell the house ditch the monthly mortgage payment, live in a place that’s light on utilities, stop all the extras, and work up our income from there.

The goal is freedom - not a collection of expensive toys, and monthly trips to the Hamptons.