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• 11.05.08
  October 2008 Budget: Back in the Black Budgets | (1)

  One of the things that I noticed catching up with our budgeting is that our budget is totally out of whack now that we don't pay rent, don't pay for phone and internet, don't pay for energy, and don't have to pay that much for my commuting.  Just take a look at how our new spending matches up with our old budget: Our categories need some major adjustments. Our monthly bills have dropped from over $1000 per month to under $100 since we moved out of our apartment. If we drop our gym membership for my wife, which I ...

  Tagged: budgeting, expenses, income, spreadsheets
  
• 11.03.08
  Budgeting Is Back In Business Budgets | (0)

  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 no budgeting or expense tracking went on.  Early this month I bit the bullet and fuddled through my credit card and checking account history for August, September, and early October in order to catch up.  This was not fun, but did teach me a few ...

  Tagged: budgeting, budgeting failure, excel budget
  
• 09.10.08
  My Additional Income Progress: 3 Month Update Blog | (2)

  I have been criminally negligent in keeping this blog up to date.  I haven't been keeping up with changes in my net worth ((Net worth is so last century.  I think that the current ratio might be a much better number for determining ones financial position.)) and I haven't even been keeping tabs on my expense tracking.  All my regular financial activities have slowly gone the way of the humble buffalo. The good thing is I haven't been wasting away my days playing Team Fortress 2 or the incredibly addicting Company of Heroes. ((The only two video games I own outright.))  ...

  Tagged: ad, additional income, budgeting, cost of living, income, life-style choices
  
• 08.08.08
  Budgeting Basics: An Expense Tracker That Works Budgets | (3)

  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 is to show you a way to gather your income and expense information is such a way that you can completely customize that way that it is displayed for you. The reason I think that this is important is because many of the expenses that we ...

  Tagged: budgeting, budgeting hacks, excel budget, excel formula, expenses, open office budget, spreadsheets
  

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