I have a budgeting confession to make, I haven’t touched my family’s budget in over a month. *Gasp*
I know, I know - I am setting the foundation for a cavalcade of kaka if I let things continue down this path, but I have a really good excuse why. It looks just like this:
I have [...]
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One of the tricks I use in my monthly budget spreadsheets is the SUMIF function. This is a powerful tool that helps me to easily summarize the financial information I record in the transaction section of my budget spreadsheet into clear categories for me to analyze and assess. I am able to track the [...]
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Could your savings use a lift? Is your wallet a little thin? Could you stand to pad your bank accounts? The equation for doing so is pretty simple. It looks something like this:
Earned Money - Spent Money = Saved Money
You see, the mechanism for saving money is simple. All it [...]
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As per our blogger/blog reader agreement, here are the numbers for our monthly spending:
This would have been another month of stellar budgeting skills had it not been for a thieving friend and a case of pay-a-bill-twice-for-no-reason syndrome that snuck (or is it sneaked - you decide) up on me without warning. Our thieving friend [...]
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