O how I hate Black Friday. I’m not sure if I’m paying more attention or something this year, but it seems like retailers are trying extra hard to get you in the stores before Friday. I’ve already succumbed twice to deals online. If I were to step into an actual store, it’s over. It’s one [...]
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My budget isn’t so much a budget as a detailed spreadsheet of where the money from each paycheck is going to go. When you think about it, that’s what a traditional budget is. You earmark $50 for this, $100 for that, etc. The way I do my budget is a little bit more [...]
I think the first thing you realize when you start having more than 1 or 2 bills is that you need some way to keep track of what you’ve paid and how much money you have in your accounts. For my husband and I, we both started using Quicken when we were in College. [...]
In the past 2 years or so I’ve taken over the bulk of the bill paying and finance planning from my husband. He started a company with a friend and working on that and his 9-5 job started taking up too much of his time. Besides that, I love playing with numbers. [...]