Archive for the ‘budget’ Category

Mrs. Rocket on groceries

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Mrs. Rocket has posted here before and I am trying to convince her to guest post on Rocket Finance at least once a week. I think it would be great for this blog if we heard from her regularly. (Yes, it has taken me almost a year to figure this ...

How do you deal with a budget deficit?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Earlier this week I shared that I use Excel for our family budget. In the spreadsheet I have set the formula in one particular cell to show our average monthly surplus or deficit as we move through the year. Since we are currently making a fairly large rent payment in ...