Budgeting
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Do you know what’s way more fun than actually budgeting? Reading about budgeting. A Google search for “Budgeting Software” will give you 3+ MILLION results. It’s clear that people are looking for something to make budgeting easier (or something to help them put off doing the actual budgeting work), but is there really any easy way [...]
How Important is a Budget?
Thursday, January 19th, 2012The first thing we did when we decided to get out of debt was reevaluate our budget. We knew that we had to change the way we spent our money before our financial situation could change. The amount of information out there on budgeting is overwhelming. There are lots of trite and obvious articles out [...]
Question of the Day: Netflix
Monday, September 19th, 2011Haven’t done a Question of the Day in a few weeks so I thought I’d ask this: Did Netflix’s latest price increase cause you to leave the company? I can’t say that the price increase caused me to leave but I did cancel our membership. Why? Mostly because it seemed like I would scroll through [...]
Question of the Day: Could You Come Up With $2,000 in 30 Days?
Monday, May 23rd, 2011A facebook friend of mine posted this question this morning: Could you come up with $2K in 30 days? One quarter of Americans report that they would certainly not be able to come up with such funds, and an additional 19% would do so by relying at least in part on pawning or selling possessions [...]
Zero Percent Interest on my Savings! Why Can’t Tom Do Better?
Thursday, November 11th, 2010This is a guest post by Doug Warshauer, author of If I’m So Smart Where Did All My Money Go: Balancing Your Financial Objectives for Lasting Wealth (Personal Finance)*. I met Doug through Twitter. Gotta love social networking. My friend Tom plans to buy a car in two years. His current car, a 2003 Chrysler, [...]
Question of the Day – How Good Are You at Controlling Compulsive Spending
Monday, September 20th, 2010Today’s Question of the Day was inspired by Just Because You CAN, Doesn’t Mean You SHOULD from MoneyCrush. After reading her post, I got to thinking about times when I practiced self-control when at the store. I think I have a pretty good handle on compulsiviness when at the store. That’s not to say that [...]
Question of the Day – Eating Out
Friday, September 10th, 2010It’s been awhile since I asked these questions: How often do you and your family eat out on a monthly basis? How much do you spend per month on average, eating out? Over the last month (August 10 – September 10), we have eaten out once as a family and I took the kids to [...]
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