For my Friday Finances post (only at least 3 weeks after I posted the first one, and my intention to post every Friday, oops) I wanted to point out the newest addition to my sidebar. That would be Debt Progress Bars. I’ve been looking for a way to put something like that on my blog for a long time. I finally found a plugin that was created by a knitter to track their works in progress, but it was easily adaptable to my purpose. As I make payments, once a month for most of the debts listed, I’ll go in and adjust the percentage of progress I have made towards my goal. I still have some tweaking to do on the plug-in, like colors and dead links, but I’m happy for now. I have a nice visual representation for all of you that doesn’t require me to repeatedly take pictures of the paper and highlighter version that’s taped to the back of my front door. Don’t worry, I’m still updating that one. It’s highly motivating to me to be able to color pink lines on that chart when my payments clear the bank.

In other financial news, I’m considering selling a few items in my house. I have a Sizzix die cutting machine, with a sizzlits adaptor, a full Sizzlits alphabet set, several Sizzix dies (hearts, circles, squares, confetti, etc) most of which has never been used, some of it gently used. I tried to get online and price everything, but there were a few things I couldn’t find. Altogether, I believe everything I have would cost $300+ brand new. So I’m thinking about listing the whole set somewhere for $200. If you know someone who might be interested, send them my way. I’ll try to get a picture of everything I have put up at some point. I have to get my camera software reloaded on my computer before I can do that though.

The other thing I’ve been considering selling is my Wii. I’m a little more torn on that one though. If I had a playstation 3, I’d sell it in a heartbeat. BUT at the same time, I haven’t used the Wii at all in a couple of months, and it seems silly to hang onto it just because I wanted it so badly if it’s not going to get used. I have the Wii console with 2 controllers and nunchucks, WiiPlay, GameParty, the WiiFit with balance board and Dance Dance Revolution: The Hottest Party with dance pad. Altogether, MSRP on what I have is $480, but that’s IF you can find the Wii and the WiiFit in stock somewhere. I’m not completely sold on selling the Wii just yet, but again, if you have any takers, send them my way. I’m looking for someone to buy the whole lot, I don’t want to try and sell it off piece by piece.

So that’s where I’m at right now… no money moving towards debt for another 2-3 weeks probably. This next paycheck covers the bills and such, the one after that will have the debt payments. That’ll probably be the next time you see most of the charts update.