Archive for the ‘Budgeting’ Category
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
This year we started our daughter on an allowance. It's probably a generous-ish allowance for a five-year-old: $2.50 per week. For "spending money" this actually amounts to $1.50 per week because we have her tithe 10% and save 30%.
I've gotten into giving this to her each week for the past ...
Posted in Budgeting, Kids and money | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 11th, 2010
My wife was online helping me to find a replacement cell phone. My contract expired long ago and the phone is starting to show signs that it won't last much longer.
She took a detour when she noticed that our bill was higher than it usually was, and investigated why. It ...
Posted in Budgeting, Organization | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005. She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have. (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then ...
Posted in Basics, Budgeting, Dining, Frugal Living | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
A colleague at work received a couple of 90-day trial membership cards for Mvelopes Personal, so I'm trying it out. Mvelopes.com is an online budgeting aid that mimics the envelope budgeting system. What is the envelope budgeting system, you ask? The idea behind this system involves cashing paychecks and splitting ...
Posted in Budgeting, Organization | 5 Comments »
