Monday, June 30th, 2008
Do you lose track of "un-budgeted" income? Sometimes our plans for extra money don't add up. When we anticipate a tax refund or a stimulus rebate or a job bonus or other side income, we start to spend it before it actually arrives - and many times the math does ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
One of the reasons that I took a new job that moved us several states to the west was that the job change allowed for more family time. And so far, I have had more time to spend with the family. Actually, might be home too much now and I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
At our house, we try to make extra money wherever we can. Bank bonuses and credit card bonuses made us almost $3,000 last year. A much riskier strategy, credit card arbitrage, made us another thousand dollars. I admit that making money this way is not for everyone. I don't plan ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
So, I was looking through my Excel budgeting workbook the other night. . . (I know, I know, there are better ways of keeping track of one's finances, but I like tinkering in Excel, plus it makes it easy to set the budget for the next year, just copy, paste ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
A debate over credit cards has been swirling between Ana of Debt-FREE Revolution and Madison of My Dollar Plan. I really hate to get on the bad side of Ana - she has a serious antipathy toward plastic - but I must come down on the side of Madison.
You see, ...
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