How To Start Your Budget From Scratch

March 3, 2011
How To Start Your Budget From Scratch

If your budget isn’t working the way that you intend it to work, then you may need to start from the ground up and build a budget beginning with the essentials.

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Managing The Miscellaneous Budget Category

February 23, 2011
Managing Hidden Expenses

The miscellaneous budget category can be one of the most challenging categories to manage and can turn your budget upside down if not carefully managed.

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Are You Walking On Thin Ice… Financially?

February 16, 2011
Testing Your Financial Stability

You can fool yourself and others into thinking your financial situation is stronger than it really is – but in reality, your ice is ready to crack!

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When Faced With Financial Disaster, Can You Live Without These Things?

February 9, 2011
What Things Could You Live Without?

I was searching for something recently and I came across the story of Brianna Karp. Basically, she lost her job in 2008, and ended up living in a trailer in a Wal-Mart parking lot. She was without electricity, and didn’t have the ability to take regular showers or prepare home-cooked meals. The article then tells [...]

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3 Reasons A Budget Will Help You Get Out Of Debt

January 14, 2011
Reasons A Budget Helps You Get Out Of Debt

If you need some debt help and are looking to put your debt worries behind you this year, you might be surprised that a budget can be the answer. Yes, there are a lot of free debt calculators and debt planning tools on the Internet today. There are debt related blogs and all sorts of [...]

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Secrets Of A Successful Budget: Setting Yourself Up To Win Financially

December 14, 2010
Secrets Of A Successful Budget

One thing I’ve thought an awful lot about these past few years since starting this site is the topic of budgets. I’ve done a few of them for my family during that time, and not all of them have been successful ones. There are a lot of problems, expenses and other glitches that can crop [...]

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Review Of Mint.com’s New Goals Feature

December 1, 2010
Mint.com Review

A while back, Peter did a review of Mint.com, a free online solution for tracking your finances. Mint lets you see all your accounts in one place, captures all of your transactions, and puts the data into a ton of great looking charts and graphs so you can see how you’re spending your money. I [...]

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Financial Prioritization: How To Know What’s Important

November 22, 2010
Financial Prioirities

“Build your emergency fund.” “Invest in retirement.” “Pay off your debt.” The more I write about personal finance, the greater the complexities I discover when it comes to prioritization. For those just starting on the path to a healthier financial future, Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps might just be the ticket. But over the course [...]

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How To Get A Spouse To Start Budgeting

August 31, 2010
Budgeting With Your Spouse

This post is by Craig Ford.  Craig, a freelance writer and missionary, blogs at Money Help For Christians.  Today is the last day that you can get a copy Craig’s eBook, The Secret to a Successful Budget for 30% off. Married couples don’t always see eye to eye.  If you’re married, you didn’t need me [...]

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Family Finance: Top Mistakes Young Families Make

July 27, 2010
Family Finances

Singles finance and family finance differ quite a bit. I’ve learned that well over the past 5 1/2 years (our oldest child is now 5 1/2). My personal experience has shown there are more spending pressures and overall expenses when you have a young family. Examples include birthday parties, swim lessons, dance lessons, clothes, toys, [...]

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A Small Business Wonder: Review Of OutRight.com

July 26, 2010
Outright.com Review

If you have a small business, the last thing you want to do is focus on accounting. Instead, you probably would rather focus on your work – what you love to do for a living! Accounting has been one of those business tasks that usually gets put on the back-burner. For those of us who [...]

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There Are Times When Your Finances Take A Back Seat. Be Prepared With A Contingency Plan

July 8, 2010
Baby Carter

Just over one week ago we had our first child, little Carter John.  Ever since the day he was born, we have been focusing only on the baby – feeding him, changing his diapers, getting used to his schedule – and trying to stay sane. One thing we’ve learned in the past week is just [...]

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3 Ways To Trick Yourself Into Saving Money

July 6, 2010
Trick Yourself Into Saving Money

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have a difficult time saving money. If the cash is there, it ends up getting spent! For those of us who need new ways of saving money, here are some great tips on saving more money than we thought possible. It’s All About Habits Before we get [...]

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What Is The Best Way To Save For A New Child?

June 21, 2010
Saving For A New Child

Well congratulations if you’ve recently found out you’re expecting to have a child! Assuming you’re having a child for the first time you may not know what expenses to expect or how to save for your child. That’s okay. Having children does impact your wallet, but it’s well worth it. Children are a blessing and [...]

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