Preparation
Now that you’ve finished the first two steps (if you’re new to this series, please start at the beginning), recording your finances and budgeting, we are ready to start thinking of those oddball expenses that don’t happen every month. Your normal budget is excellent at helping you control your money from month to month. You have a decent idea how …
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Written by Matt on October 24, 2008
Preparation
Now that you’ve got a bit of history on your spending (you did start to record your spending, right?), let’s start working on a budget. Yes, I said it, that nasty ‘B’ word! Budget has such a nasty connotation to it, but it really isn’t a bad thing.
It’s always a good time to start a budget. I actually made my first real budget in the middle of my layoff (and you wouldn’t …
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Written by Matt on October 6, 2008
Isn’t it sad how obvious this is and how many people (and even our Government) don’t get it? It took me longer than it should have to understand this concept
Big hat tip to thinkyourwaytowealth.com for remembering this skit.
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Posted under Budgeting Written by Matt on October 2, 2008
You’ve likely seen their ads on television. They are an online bank, and have both checking and savings accounts. We have been using their Orange savings account for some time now and love it. It is extremely useful and the options they have work very well with long-term budgeting (I’ll be posting on how to use ING Orange Savings for this).
They have a 3% APY savings account. If …
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Written by Matt on October 1, 2008
Why is this step important?
I spent my 20’s not paying much attention to my finances. If I needed something, I’d put it on my credit card without a thought. My wife and I both had good incomes, our mortgage was low, I never even considered that I was slowly digging myself deeper into debt. When we had a child we lost my wife’s income and suddenly it hit me… Where did all my money go?
When I took a hard look at my …
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Written by Matt on September 29, 2008
