Archive for the ‘Budgeting’ Category
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 »
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
A cash-only budgeting system can be the ticket to reining in spending and getting away from the temptation of credit cards. The idea is this:
Pull out the total of your weekly (biweekly, monthly) budget in cash.
Separate the cash into envelopes by category according to how you're budgeting that money.
Spend down ...
Posted in Budgeting, Cash | 3 Comments »
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Bart, over at the Personal Finance and Money Stack Exchange site, lacks discipline with tracking his finances. He asks:
I have had very little success with managing money. I have gone bankrupt once ($50K in credit card debt) and since then I no longer have credit cards (just ...
Posted in Basics, Budgeting | No Comments »
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Hopefully I didn't let the cat out of the bag to anyone reading today. If so, I'm sorry. (As long as I'm at it, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Great Pumpkin don't exist, either.)
The impossibility of such a character is easy to argue. Let's say that there ...
Posted in Budgeting | 2 Comments »
