Archive for the ‘budget’ Category

I am a spreadsheet budgeter

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I first started tracking our family budget in 2005. Some of you will remember that our budget deficit that year was in the neighborhood of $25,000. I had taken a class in Microsoft Excel and decided to start plugging our numbers into a spreadsheet and see what happened. I continue ...

I thought I had a 3/4″ wood bit

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I have shared on numerous occasions that we put our family at financial risk with bad money decisions early in our marriage. As we start to pack for our upcoming cross-country move, I was reminded of another habit of mine that has cost us a lot of money over the ...