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From the category archives:
I argue that tracking your finances is even more important than creating a budget. After all — if you don’t know where your money is going, how can you create a realistic, working budget?
The first time my husband and I were challenged to track every dollar we spent was over ten years ago when I was taking [...]
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Do you and your spouse have joint accounts? Or do you keep your finances separate? John and I have shared our finances from day one. Neither of us ever considered doing anything differently, actually; we were so young and so broke when we got married — what difference did it make? When you have so [...]
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Careers and Kids and Separations. And a bit about Homeschooling, too.
John just got back from attending a month-long course down in Texas for Air Force Officers of his rank (major) who are in his career field. The class was small, maybe a dozen officers or so, and they were (rather forcibly) encouraged to mingle and [...]
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Riding bikes is great frugal fun for the whole family! Once you’ve accounted for the cost of the bikes, of course…
John recently posted this ad on craigslist:
26″ Men’s Full Suspension Mountain Bike for Parts
This is a mountain bike as described made by Concord. My lovely and insufferably cute wife likes to run [...]
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The second half of my guest post is over at $5 Dinners: Tips to Stay the Course and Pay Off That Debt!
I hope you all take a look: it touches on some ideas that I haven’t gotten around to posting about over here in Budgets.
When Erin very graciously offered to host a guest post [...]
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I remarked to a friend recently about the phenomenon of how men tend to be into gadgets much more than women.
“Oh, yea.” My friend chimed in right away. “I call them his other women.”
What?
So she goes on to explain how she even gives them names: the TV’s Monique; the cell phone’s Stephanie; Cecelia (the blackberry) [...]
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