Archive for January, 2011
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
One big advantage of tracking the categories of personal spending is that you can see where the weak spots are -- categories that have grown a little too big for their britches and are ripe for cutting down to size.
As I pile through a year's worth of financial statements in ...
Posted in Budgeting, Dining | 5 Comments »
Monday, January 17th, 2011
This weekend I told my newsletter subscribers that I was starting up on my taxes. Since I have about three months left, there's plenty of time to try to do it right, and set up an organized set of financial records in the process. I'm starting with a lot of ...
Posted in Bargains, Basics, Organization, Taxes | No Comments »
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Kimberly Palmer, senior editor for US News and World Report and author of Generation Earn (see my review) posted yesterday on the smart way to pay kids an allowance. She drew on statements from several experts who had researched the way children responded to different kinds of exposure to money ...
Posted in Budgeting, Kids and money | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Think Your Way to Wealth is noticing the same thing that I've noticed: Gas prices are sneaking back up. For a while they were down in the low-$2 range here (yeah that qualifies for low now) and now they're testing $3 again. "RC" caught that the former president of Shell ...
Posted in Budgeting, Gas and Oil | 3 Comments »
