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• 03.21.08
  Budgeting: A Guide to Sanity and Wisdom Budgets, Featured | (0)

  My wife and I budget. Well, that is not technically true. I build spreadsheets and crunch numbers and think of areas where we can shave off a few dollars here or there, but my wife is actually the one in the trenches making our family budget work. If it wasn't for her we would probably be eating Top Ramen every day instead of the nutritious and flavorful meals we currently eat. Our house would be drab and spartan, instead it is warm and welcoming. My clothes would be torn and tattered, but she keeps them ...

  Tagged: budgeting, family budget, spreadsheets, why budget
  
• 03.20.08
  I’ve Been Married For a Year Family Life | (2)

  Yeah, that's me. In Afghanistan and Pakistan men take really cool photos like these and they are considered manly. Since I am a manly man and I like to bow to all sorts of cultural norms foreign to my native country, I decided that while I was out celebrating my first wedding anniversary that I would pose for this picture to inspire my wife to love me more. It worked. On St. Patrick's day my wife and I celebrated the beauty of our marriage the following ways (with the following costs): Breakfast at Champagne Bakery - ...

  Tagged: about me, budgeting, San Diego
  
• 03.18.08
  Save to Buy … If You Buy At All Frugality | (1)

  Sterling Silver Monkey Studs by knitsteel Wouldn't you find a woman wearing these precious earrings simply irresistible? I know I would. But like most things that make someone absolutely irresistible, these earing cost some dough. I'm not exactly sure how much, but anything with that type of sex appeal is worth at least 100x what any comparable set of earrings would cost. That means these little puppies would run me anywhere between $599 and $999 - I simply don't have that in our clothing budget. So, in light of my family's commitment to live debt free, ...

  Tagged: budgeting, consumerism, fight poverty, life-style choices, saving tips
  
• 03.17.08
  Emergency Funds Are the Coolest Featured, Frugality | (0)

  Bad planning does not constitute an emergency plan. Anonymous As per my family's commitment to live debt free for the purpose of changing the world we have set up an emergency fund. This fund currently contains just about three months of our household expenses, including the amount that we save each month for our irregular expenses. It sits in neat piles of $20 bills in our bank which we can access over this thing that I heard about from a friend called the Internet. If you haven't heard about it yet you really need to get a clue. ...

  Tagged: budgeting, cost of living, credit management, future, life-style choices
  

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