From the category archives:

Budgeting and Money Matters

Really?? 8 Reasons Not to Coupon??

July 21, 2010

Share photo credit: Stephen Cummings I haven’t ever done a soapbox type of rant like this, but when I read this article I couldn’t help but post something about it, so this may be long, but it will be worth your read! I saw this article posted on Facebook and had to click on it.  [...]

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Getting Back On Track: What I Have Learned

May 11, 2010

Share This has been quite a trial for me as I have had to stop all the frugal living in the house in the name of sanity.  I had no idea what that would do to our pocket book and no idea what it would do to being able to get back on track.  I [...]

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Budgeting…blah!

May 4, 2010

Share Can I tell you a little secret? Part of my hate in getting back into this frugal life is budgeting. I love knowing where my money is going and having a plan. Especially when it comes to the things we get to save for like buying a car with cash ( which by the [...]

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Quicken Home budgeting tools

October 7, 2009

Share   If you hae been a reader of mine for a while you know how much I love Quicken!!  I don’t use it as much as I used to, but when I first started trying to see where my money was going and how much we spent where it was SO important for me [...]

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Quicken Online

June 3, 2009

Share I have used Quicken for years.  It was recommended to be by a friend who I have always admired for their ability ot budget and stay on top of their money.  I had to buy it and while it was costly it has helped me so much to keep track of my money and [...]

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Budgeting 101 Part 3

April 6, 2009

Share So now you have a budget and are living on it. Well, one thing that has made a difference in how I look at the amount of money I can spend in a month is to look at it pay check by paycheck. This is called an allocated budget. This means that you break [...]

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Budgeting 101 Part 2

March 30, 2009

Share So You have budget, now what? This was the question I asked myself over and over for the past 3 years before finding someone who knew what they were doing. Each month I would sit down and make the budget, then show it to my husband who could have cared less and always said [...]

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Budgeting 101 Part 1

March 28, 2009

Share Unfortunately we really can’t live without money. Don’t we wish we could!!!! There are so many ways to budget your money. I have found some things that work for me so I want to share them with others to help them to manage their money smoothly. First off you must set up your budget. [...]

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