Boost Your Budget With Credit Cards
Yes, you read that right — you can boost your budget with credit cards! And no, we haven’t had too much eggnog to drink this holiday season! The common mentality is that credit cards...
Category: Budgeting
Budget Boot Camp :: Back To Basics
It is always nice to know that you have money in your pocket during times of crisis and emergencies. Occasional recreational activities and buying luxury items that you want to purchase can add spice...
How To Trim Your Budget
Would you like a little more breathing room in your budget? Whether you follow a very strict monthly budget where you allocate each dollar to specific goals or follow a more loose budget where...
Stop Eating Your Money
How much money do you budget each month towards eating away from home? Maybe I should first ask whether you are even following a budget or spending plan but the truth is that people...
Am I Weird?
Ever since getting a handle on our consumer debt and leading a life free of paying other people interest (other than our mortgage company), I actually look forward to the daily mail and any...
Children Managing Their Allowance
As I wrote in my post about teaching children how to save, we have been using a weekly allowance system for our children and have been quite happy with the results. However, today I...
Money Personalities of Children
This afternoon I received a nice example of the money personalities of our two children and they are beginning to become quite different from each other. With both of them having birthdays in the...
Would You Like an Extra $200 Per Month?
Did you receive an income tax refund last year? According to the Principal Financial Well-Being Index, 84% of the workers surveyed were expecting a refund on their 2005 state or federal taxes. With the...
Plan Ahead to Avoid ATM Fees
How many times have you been in a rush to get cash from the ATM and decided to simply use the most convenient ATM? Unfortunately, that often means you are using a machine that...
Creating a Budget: Classifying Expenses
Now that you have spent some time tracking your expenses, the next step in the budgeting process is to sit down with that data and begin to organize your expenses. This may seem like...
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