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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]