Budgeting
by JC Reagan
January 28, 2012
When a couple gets married, they both have preconceptions and ways of dealing with money. One may be a spender, one a saver. How should you deal with finances in marriage?
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by JC Reagan
January 10, 2012
My father taught me how to prune trees. You find where you want to cut and you look for that fork in the branch. That is where you cut. No hack and slash, no indiscriminate chainsaw running here (even though that sounds like a lot of fun). Are you looking to prune your budget? Here are some ideas!
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by Guest
November 30, 2011
All of us should have, by now, realized the dire situation of the world in which we live. People who cannot get enough food, or clean water to survive, and millions, without a single blanket to keep them warm, a pair of shoes to protect their feet, or a roof over their heads to ward off the weather. Here are some reasons charity should be on your budget, and some ideas on where you can donate.
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by Chuck Detwiler
September 1, 2011
For those of you who have school age children within your family you know the pressure you can feel to buy something from a little niece or nephew who has big puppy dog eyes or a purr as sweet as a kitten. You may not even have young children in your family, but you have a close friend in the office who always shows you little Johnny’s pictures. However, unfortunately for you … you may have unknowingly gushed one too many times and are now considered prime fundraiser grounds!
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by Chuck Detwiler
April 7, 2011
Apple® announced that iPad 2, the next generation of its “magical” device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, and reading eBooks. Should you buy it?
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by John
April 7, 2010
You’re a busy person. Between your family, work, friends, and various meetings, you have little time to spend working on your budget! But you know that you have to be working on your finances, right? The trick is finding time to work on it. I think the main issue with finding time to fix one’s [...]
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by John
March 20, 2010
Yes. In moderation. There are specific circumstances where you will have to do this. This month we ran out of grocery money due to two reasons: we had the budget very low already and we wanted to plant veggies (used money from the grocery envelope) to produce a summer harvest. Therefore, we pulled some money [...]
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by John
March 13, 2010
There were times when I thought that I was crazy for using cash on discretionary expenses. Why do I need to do this? I hate coins in my wallet. Now I have to reconcile my cash transactions manually. Who has time for this? Look, that guy’s using his debit. Why can’t I do that? These are the [...]
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by John
March 11, 2010
Looking at all of my failed attempts at creating a working budget, I’ve found that there were some underlying truths that held me back from accomplishing my goals. What are these underlying truths? There are many when it comes to budget writing. First, I believe it has to be simple. If a budget isn’t simple to [...]
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by John
January 30, 2010
For the past year, we’ve been using MoneyWell for Mac and love it. I thought it would be a good time to do a review, since we have found a lot of great features for those looking to make a simplified budget. One of the most difficult tasks when starting a budget is simply understanding [...]
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! John wrote two articles for the book: "Budgeting for Groceries" and "How Grocery Stores Work."
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