I haven’t been keeping up on budget numbers since my wife and I moved out of our one bedroom apartment that ran us $890 a month in early August.  This has been gnawing away the life-blood of my financial soul (not really, but it sounds so dramatic) as month after month marched by and still [...]

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Tracking your expenses is an important part of setting up a budget that is effective at predicting future expenditures and educating you on your current progress. There are a few different styles that people employ to do this, but I don’t want to get into that discussion now. What I want to do [...]

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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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This was a stellar month for us in terms of our monthly budget. Here are the numbers:

We ran under budget in every category save our entertainment category which saw an unexpected rise in the cost of our Napster subscription. Oh what I would give for the glory days of Napster when I could [...]

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