18.

Jim Bredeson

Donation: $5.00
Relation: Friend

About: Has more wit ever inhabited another boy on earth? What a delightful person. Jims brings a cloud of laughter wherever he travels. He even travels to the far reaches of Brooklyn to care for sick friends. Not many Manhattanites can boast such an endeavor. RJ owes him two dinners.

New Debt Total: $72,908.50

Warning: Sharks in the Water!

Monthly Loan Payment of $827.00 submitted to the sharks, Sallie and Citi.

New Debt Total: Unchanged.

Quest for Credit from mint.com

Minimum Payments: A Monster that will Eat You Alive!

Monthly Personal Donation

RJ Jordan
Donation: $375.00

About: Every month RJ donates $350.00 dollars to The Three Quarter Project. This amount is on top of his monthly student loan payment of $650.00.

New Debt Total: $72,553.50

Shark Bait

VS.



Coffee!

How much does coffee cost over a year? Well, if you're like me and you drink at least two cups a day, then you are probably spending over $1500 on coffee a year. That's over $100 a month on battery acid. Scrooge, you bemoan from the towers of financial liberalism. Live a little! Totally. But if you're in my boat and make barely over $30,000 a year after taxes, a thousand dollars is a lot of money to spend, especially on something that spends less than sixty minutes in your body.

Solutions

Novice

Buy a coffee maker. Cuisinart sells a maker for $70.99 (that's one month's worth of Iced Tall Coffees from Starbucks). Grinds will run you on average $260 per year (that's $5 a week). Pick up a portable mug and make your morning ritual convenient and environmentally responsible. My new coffee maker lowered my monthly Coffee Shop budget from $100 to $20.

Master

Drink tea. It's less expensive and better for you. Plus it has the added pleasure of coming in hundreds of different flavors (coffee does too, but let's be honest, bitter is bitter).

Jedi

Water. It's free and electrolyte packed.

http://www.mint.com/blog/saving/discretionary-spending-07012010/?display=wide

17.

Michael Whalen

Donation: $12.50
Relation: Friend

About: The Doctor's in the House. He's a charmer with exceedinly good taste in video games and cult classic flim. Don't ask him over if there's ice on the street, though. He tends to slip more than most.

New Debt Total: $72,913.50

16.

Robert Crosby

Donation: $1.00
Relation: Friend

About: Robert's super sass can level a town. He's a delight to have on any party, with his can do attitude and adorable smile. I don't know much about him, but he likes aquariums.

New Debt Total: $72,926.00

15.

Nick Flower

Donation: $2.00
Relation: Friend

About: With a name like Mr. Flower, Nick never leaves a CEP party without a dozen phone numbers. Eight feet of tender loving kindness, he's a walking teddy bear.

New Debt Total: $72,927.00

Warning! Blood in the waters!

Monthly Loan Payment of $650.00 submitted to the sharks, Sallie and Citi.

New Debt Total: Unchanged.

14.

Chris Butterworth

Donation: $75.00

Relation: Friend

About: If you need a date to the Westminster Kennel Dog Show, Chris is your guy. He's a dogfood pusher with great style (and we're not talking about the Pedigree embossed T's). Drop-dead gorgeous, heart of gold, smile for days, ecetera, ecetera. We can't wait for his next appearance.

New Debt Total: $72,929

Introducing PayPal

http://www.paypal.com/

Under the Personal Menu, click the SEND MONEY button. Enter RJ's email address: atlaswalkedaway@gmail.com

PayPal charges a financial charge everytime somebody sends money over their system, so please consider this when making a donation.

13.

Sam and Anna Adams

Donation: $575.75

Relation: Friends

About: If you told RJ one year ago that he would be living and falling in love with two Mormon models from Oregon, he would have slapped you across the face with a crucifix. Sam and Anna are RJ's bravest friends. Their lives are defined by integrity and buoyed by courage. They believe in a woman's right to choose, as long as babies aren't vacuumed in the process. They believe that gay people are equals, deserving both love and justice. They recycle, eat raw food, and have the smallest carbon footprints in NYC. They are the Republicans the Republican Party never talks about, because if they did, their party would cease to have meaning, in the same way that a glass with a single crack becomes meaningless. RJ will miss them terribly.

New Debt Total: $73,004

12.

Jonathan Sheffer

Donation: $75.00

Relation: Friend

About: Poetic and beautiful, Jonathan graces the stage with an exciting mix of humility and grandiosity. He shares a couple of compulsions with RJ, especially an incessant need to pee on long holiday trips to the country. NASA may be interested in his car, which travels at speeds unknown to science. RJ looks forward to sharing Munchkins with Jonathan over good conversation, piping hot coffee, and the warmth and joy of his fellowship, for many years to come.

New Debt Total: $73, 579.75

11.

Stacey Klein

Donation: $7.50

Relation: Friend

About: Stacey's dessert will bring you to your knees. Seriously, if you have cavities or a desire to maintain respectable personal dimensions, avoid her like the plague! Beyond desserts, she's wonderful company, kind, and deeply passionate about worker's rights.

New Debt Total: $73,654.75

10.

Michael Charles Bradley

Donation: $1.00
Percentage of Total: .000014

Relation: Friend

About: Say Straight Crush three times as fast as you can. Michael Bradley is liquid to your knees.

New Debt Total: $73,662.25

9.

Kevin Kiler

Donation: $1.00
Percentage of Total: .000014

Relation: Friend

About: Make sure you do your dishes before he comes over. He makes RJ's days at Creative Edge Parties infinitely easier by being so incredibly helpful and so worthy of employment. He's a worker among workers, who never shies away from the task at hand. He most certainly applies this principle to everything in his life, and for this he will always be taken care of.

New Debt Total: $73,663.25

8.

Richard Socarides

Donation: $7.50
Percentage of Total: 0.0001

Relation: Friend and Special Advisor

About: Richard Socarides catches people when they fall. If you need a corporate getaway planned or a friend to take you to the doctor or a let-the-wild-rumpus-begin coffee date, Richard's your guy. RJ admires him and wants what he has. :)

New Debt Total: $73,664.25

7.

Corey Johnson

Donation: $100.00
Percentage of Total: 0.0014
Relation: Friend

About: Call Center Carla keeps RJ in good-spirits. Generous, genuine, gregarious, Corey makes anything and everything you do with him a joy. He's RJ's gossip buddy and protective lion and he keeps us all smiling.

New Debt Total: $73,671.75

Bye, Bye Debt

With money from his tax return, RJ destroyed two credit cards.

$1000 to GE Money Bank
$1700 to Chase Bank

6.

George Henderson

Donation: $20.00

Percentage of Total: 0.000275

Relation: Boss and Friend

About: George Henderson is the dictionary-definition of 'Handsome Devil.' His quick wit and charm entertain endlessly. If he's not planning your bat mitzvah or Aunt Susan's space-themed wedding, he's probably helping you understand your relationships or improving the lives of others. George and RJ have co-owed a bicycle since January 2010.

New Debt Total: $73,771.75

Warning: Loan Shark Straight Ahead!

Monthly Loan Payment of $650.00 submitted to the sharks, Sallie and Citi.

New Debt Total: Unchanged.

Monthly Personal Donation

RJ Jordan
Donation: $375.00
Percentage of Total: .005

About: Every month RJ donates $375.00 dollars to The Three Quarter Project. This amount is on top of his monthly student loan payment of $650.00.

New Debt Total: $73,791.75

5.

Bo Jordan

Donation: $750.00
Percentage of Total: 0.01
Relation: Father

About: RJ's father is a rare bird. Part pirate, part chef, part artist, part jung-fu master--no one on Planet Earth has ever made so many dreams come true. Son of a famous movie star, Bo decided at a young age that he too would be famous and wealthy. In his twenties he built four boats from scratch, designed, owned and operated a restaurant and catering business and fathered two children. He sticks to dreams like flies to honey. If he says he can do it, he does it. RJ admires him so much.

New Debt Total: $74,166.75

4.

Gary Leimkuhler

Donation: $7.50
Percentage of Total: 0.0001
Relation: Friend and Special Advisor

About: A more interesting, gay Mother Theresa. His sense of humor and charm are greatly outshined by an uncanny talent for good-doing. His heart is large and I quite think the world of him.

New Debt Total: $74,931.75