Comments on: Four Benefits of Your New Budget http://personalfinancebythebook.com/four-benefits-of-your-new-budget/ Making You a Winner at Money and Life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:05:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Plemon http://personalfinancebythebook.com/four-benefits-of-your-new-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Joe Plemon Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:33:19 +0000 http://personalfinancebythebook.com/?p=130#comment-55 Peter, Amen! Budgeting is one of the most positive experiences in our marriage. Doing so forces us to discuss values issues we would otherwise ignore. Peter,

Amen! Budgeting is one of the most positive experiences in our marriage. Doing so forces us to discuss values issues we would otherwise ignore.

]]> By: Joe Plemon http://personalfinancebythebook.com/four-benefits-of-your-new-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Joe Plemon Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:31:11 +0000 http://personalfinancebythebook.com/?p=130#comment-54 Matt, About the bunions...me too! My quirky sense of humor took over at that point in the post. Yes. Budgeting is hard. My wife and I set up as many automatic transactions (savings and investments are automatic every month) as we can in order to have built in discipline. But even then things often get off track and we have to regroup and refocus. But we went years without ever budgeting, so we know the freedom of being in control instead of out of control. Matt,

About the bunions…me too! My quirky sense of humor took over at that point in the post.

Yes. Budgeting is hard. My wife and I set up as many automatic transactions (savings and investments are automatic every month) as we can in order to have built in discipline. But even then things often get off track and we have to regroup and refocus.

But we went years without ever budgeting, so we know the freedom of being in control instead of out of control.

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]]> By: Matt Jabs http://personalfinancebythebook.com/four-benefits-of-your-new-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Matt Jabs Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:30:09 +0000 http://personalfinancebythebook.com/?p=130#comment-52 Personally, I would rather go through the rigors of a mathematical budget than rub my mother-in-law’s bunions ANYDAY! ;-) I will say this... as the article points out, budgeting can be hard. Even as a PF blogger, it took me many months to actually collect the necessary info, toil, tweak, & institute our family budget. Once it was done... I cannot explain in words how FREEING it is to know where all your money is going. I would wager to say that simply the exercise along of successfully implementing a family budget will save you at least 10% of your earnings... because creating a budget FIXES THE LEAKS in your financial boat! .-= Matt Jabs´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.debtfreeadventure.com/2009/07/localvore-eat-local-foods-and-save-money/" rel="nofollow">Localvore – Eat Local Foods and Save Money</a> =-. Personally, I would rather go through the rigors of a mathematical budget than rub my mother-in-law’s bunions ANYDAY! ;-)

I will say this… as the article points out, budgeting can be hard. Even as a PF blogger, it took me many months to actually collect the necessary info, toil, tweak, & institute our family budget.

Once it was done… I cannot explain in words how FREEING it is to know where all your money is going. I would wager to say that simply the exercise along of successfully implementing a family budget will save you at least 10% of your earnings… because creating a budget FIXES THE LEAKS in your financial boat!
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]]> By: Peter http://personalfinancebythebook.com/four-benefits-of-your-new-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Peter Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:59:01 +0000 http://personalfinancebythebook.com/?p=130#comment-50 On the face of it doing a budget is stressful, restricting and not fun! But when you look below the surface and actually start doing one you realize just how many benefits there are. You'll have less stress, you'll fight less about money, you'll be communicating when you talk about the budget, it'll feel like you have a bunch more money every month, etc. Budgeting, while it's tough to get started, can be a life changing exercise! .-= Peter´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BibleMoneyMatters/~3/ls8bbtMMe8A/budgeting-a-statement-of-faith.html" rel="nofollow">Budgeting: A Statement Of Faith</a> =-. On the face of it doing a budget is stressful, restricting and not fun! But when you look below the surface and actually start doing one you realize just how many benefits there are. You’ll have less stress, you’ll fight less about money, you’ll be communicating when you talk about the budget, it’ll feel like you have a bunch more money every month, etc.

Budgeting, while it’s tough to get started, can be a life changing exercise!
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