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60 Days To Change: Grocery Shopping

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Added by Peter Dunn on April 2, 2009 at 9:04am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Controlling Your Spending

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 30, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Abundance

Understanding the Abundance Mentality Our benign habits often aren’t as benign as they seem. For instance, many people keep too much money in their checking account in order to manufacture some financial tranquility. But keeping too much money in your checking account is very dangerous for a number of reasons. Of course there are the obvious reasons such as low yielding accounts, but it is the less obvious reason that can ruin a perfectly good financial situation. Let me explain using my favor… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 30, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

60 Days To Change: Debt and Refinancing

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 26, 2009 at 8:09am — No Comments

60 Days To Change: Hooray, it's Ugly Day.

Today is the day that most people dread. It's the day that you are going to stare all of your debt square in the face. If you are half-way normal, then you probably try to suppress your thoughts when they linger towards your debt. Ignoring your debt can be a good technique in some instances, but not during 60 Days to Change. Ignorance is a good practice once that you have a plan in place. But ignorance without a plan is irresponsible. You can ignore your debt throughout the week once you have a… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 25, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Is Credit Repair a Myth?

Is it possible to repair your credit? Ummmm, kinda. How's that for a definitive answer? Okay, I will get a little more specific. No, you can't repair your credit the way you think. But you can always try to improve your score. I will show you what I mean. Let's say that you forget to pay your credit card bill (take the term "forget" however you like). This is obviously a ding on your credit once the account gets past 30 days. It is not possible to "fix" or "repair" this transgression. It can't… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 24, 2009 at 9:12am — No Comments

60 Days To Change: Credit Realities

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 23, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Day 8 Check Your Credit

It's Day 8 of 60 Days to Change, and it's time to get down to the nitty gritty (I have no idea what constitutes something being nitty and/or gritty). It's debt week. If you have debt, then we will help you put together a plan on how to eliminate it while forming lasting money habits. The first step is to pull your credit report. This costs you nothing, and more importantly it won't negatively impact your credit. Go to Annual Credit Report and pull… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 23, 2009 at 7:38am — No Comments

60 Days To Change: Following the Couples

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 19, 2009 at 8:02am — No Comments

Can Generosity Turn Us Around?

My wife and I recently had our first child. She is a beautiful little girl named, Olive. I could go on for pages about how much I care for little Olive, but what is important for you to know is how much others have cared for us. Generosity can cure many ills. And when you are tired and overwhelmed, people’s generosity keeps you sane. Friends have made us meals, lent us clothes, and even ran our errands. This has made us feel very loved, and actually distorted our reality. Our reality is that we… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 18, 2009 at 9:16am — 1 Comment

60 Days to Change: Where are you weak?

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, but it's how you deal with your strengths and weaknesses that will determine your success. Many people fail because they ignore what they struggle at. Day 3 asks you to take a simple quiz. The quiz will help you determine where you… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 18, 2009 at 8:46am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Counting Your Transactions

It's already Day 2, and now we get to understand your spending habits. Do you use money to solve problems? Sometimes spending money is not the solution. The exercise in Day 2 will help break you of a lot of nasty spending habits. It sure helped me. Be sure to logon to www.60DaysToChange.com for your free account. Once you are there, complete Day 2's activities, and start to form some good habits. And as always, email me with any questions. Thanks for participating and thanks for watching 24 Hou… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 17, 2009 at 10:44am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Switch Your Thinking

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 16, 2009 at 2:19pm — No Comments

60 Days to Change Begins Today

People love stories of triumph. 60 Days to Change will allow you to create your own. Succeed. Succeed wildly, and change your life forever. We will give you the “how” every single day for the next 60 Days, and you supply the hard work. Make sure that you involve your pa… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 16, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

60 Days to Change: Day 1 Sneak Peek

If you are following us on our 24 Hour News 8 program 60 Days to Change, then you know that the program officially launches on 3/16/09. But, here is a sneak peak. Day 1 of the program is all about organization. Over the following 59 days you will need to access a tremendous amount of your financial information. Therefore, we are going to have you do the hunting and gathering on Day 1. The entire first week of the program is about increasing your awareness. Start by gathering all bank, debt, inve… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 13, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments

60 Days to Change Begins Tonight

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Added by Peter Dunn on March 11, 2009 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Green Candy Partnering with WISH-TV for 60 Days to Change

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - WISH-TV’s 24-Hour News 8 teams up with financial guru Peter Dunn, a.k.a. “Pete the Planner” for the “Money Watch 8 Challenge: 60 Days to Change.” This on-air / on-line program provides viewers the information and tools to help examine, evaluate and improve their overall financial lives. “We’re working alongside our viewers to get through these challenging times together,” said Jeff White, president and general manager of WISH-TV and MyINDY-TV. “The more news, information a… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 10, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

Do You Take Financial Advice From Everyone?

Recently when filming a segment for 60 Days to Change, something became abundantly clear. We, as trusting Americans (or something like that), take financial advice from people we shouldn’t. We tend to take advice from anyone with a cash register and a credit card application. If you step back and think about it for a second, why would you let a teenager working a checkout lane talk you into opening a credit card? Yet, it happens every single day. Opening a store credit card rarely makes sense. M… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on March 5, 2009 at 8:05am — No Comments

$50 is still $50

Billions and billions of dollars. Our national currency has turned into Monopoly Money. It is hard to imagine that literally a trillion dollars has been spoken for so far. It’s hard to keep track of how much money a trillion dollars really is. If you are keeping score at home it contains 12 zeros. I feel that I’m starting to lose sight of the value of a dollar. The government is throwing money around left and right. If someone told me that there was a new stimulus program that only cost $25 mill… Continue

Added by Peter Dunn on February 23, 2009 at 4:38pm — 1 Comment

Topical Cream, Mandarin Oranges, and Charity

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Added by Peter Dunn on February 20, 2009 at 4:51pm — No Comments

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