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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