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Budgeting

Budgeting Series Part Four: How Your New Budget Will Change Your Life

January 20, 2011

Welcome to our Budgeting Series! Wait!! Don’t hit that back button just yet. You know deep down inside that you need a budget. Right? Right! So let’s make a deal. My part is to write the following four part series with the promise that each segment will be short and simple:

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Budgeting Series Part Three: Nuts, Bolts and Tips for Your New Budget

January 19, 2011

Welcome to our Budgeting Series! Wait!! Don’t hit that back button just yet. You know deep down inside that you need a budget. Right? Right! So let’s make a deal. My part is to write the following four part series with the promise that each segment will be short and simple:

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Budgeting Series Part Two: 5 Things Your Budget Will Do For You

January 18, 2011

Welcome to our Budgeting Series! Wait!! Don’t hit that back button just yet. You know deep down inside that you need a budget. Right? Right! So let’s make a deal. My part is to write the following four part series with the promise that each segment will be short and simple:

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Budgeting Series Part One: 5 Reasons Your Previous Budgeting Attempts Failed

January 17, 2011

Welcome to our Budgeting Series! Wait!! Don’t hit that back button just yet. You know deep down inside that you need a budget. Right? Right! So let’s make a deal. My part is to write the following four part series with the promise that each segment will be short and simple:

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20 Sites to Help You Spend Less and Save More

December 8, 2010

With Christmas upon us and a New Year around the corner, we can all use tips on spending less and saving more.  I want to thank Bailey Harris, who writes about homeowners insurance for www.homeownersinsurance.org. for supplying this guest post. The Internet offers more than just shopping opportunities–it also provides helpful tools for tracking expenses, [...]

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How to Avoid Christmas Debt Without Becoming a Grinch … 12 Great Tips

October 6, 2010

Were you still paying for Christmas 2009 in July of 2010? Did you have heart palpitations when you received your January credit card statements this year? Has the joy of giving become the duty of giving? Does Christmas giving spark spousal wars in your family? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, I [...]

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Beware of Percentage Budgets

September 15, 2010

You have seen those percentage budget plans which deftly tell you what percentage of your budget you should spend on which categories.  Yes, they are a good guide, but you need to beware: giving too much credence to those percentages could get you in trouble.

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Five Steps Toward Automating Your Way to Wealth

September 1, 2010

Will power just doesn’t get the job done. Sure, on a day when you are feeling particularly noble you might set aside an extra $50 in your savings account or pay an extra $25 on that credit card debt. But, if you are like most of us, starting a plan and sticking with it gives [...]

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You CAN Afford That Baby – Ten Money Saving Tips

August 9, 2010

You have read those cost projections for raising children. MSN, back in 2001 projected a cost of $249,180 (over $350,000 in 2010 dollars) for a family with a $65,800 or greater income. The Baby Center web site tells us the cost of raising a child from baby to adulthood is $266,698. The Wall Street Journal [...]

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How to Pay Off Your House (and everything else) Early

June 14, 2010

“It seems like we will be making house payments forever. We owe $140,000 at 6% interest and are paying $1000 a month. How much sooner could we pay off our mortgage early if we started paying an extra $100 a month?” The above is a hypothetical question, but it could be you. There are two [...]

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How We Vacation For $500

June 4, 2010

A great vacation should allow you to get away, relax and have fun. For me (and I assume for you), relaxing and having fun is impossible if it isn’t affordable. This post will share some tips that Jan and I have used over the years and will conclude with the breakdown of our upcoming $500 [...]

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