January 2010
6 posts
“Giving increased attention to spending also required me to monitor our budget...”
– Frugally Blonde: Reducing Anxiety about Money
“The most important tool in your frugal toolkit, as I have said before, is your...”
– Frugal Dates | Frugal Hacks
I don’t want to make it sound like budgeting should only be done by people trying to be frugal … I think everyone should budget. But I thought this was a good quote, and the post was a good reminder that wants often masquerade as needs.
Books on Budgeting?
A friend of mine is looking for books on budgeting, and I realized that I didn’t actually know of any good ones. Most general personal finance books (Dave Ramsey’s stuff for example) touches on budgeting, but there aren’t any books specifically about budgeting that I know of.
Do you know of any? If I were to … say … write one, what would you want to know? Any ideas...
“I also think that the current frugality trend won’t last. When the economy...”
– Trent Hamm, at The Simple Dollar
I think he’s probably right.
This is fun.
Naomi, at Sustainable Mommy, posted about how using PearBudget saved her $15 on a single shopping trip. After returning home, she noticed something funny:
It was when I looked more closely at the Goodwill receipt I noticed a charge for $24.93. I couldn’t think what that was, so I started digging in the bag only to find that the cashier had incorrectly rung up those two (new!) tool...
Welcome to 2010! Getting started with the new...
So this is exciting. Last year, we had a convoluted process you could go through if you wanted to “reset” your budget for the beginning of the year. This year, we have a much more streamlined way to handle it. It’s possible there might be a few small bugs in this new process, so if you have any problems, please get in touch with us. But I’m hoping most of you will have a flawless...