I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: INVEST, SAVE, OR SPEND EVERY DOLLAR (IN THAT ORDER) Conventional wisdom says “you need to budget” your money. Then there’s the wisdom of those against budgets and their argument often goes like this: each January 1st, you tell yourself “I’m going to budget better,” but then […]

This time, I am trying a slightly different format for this report since the graphics from my 2010 version of Quicken were not exactly… HD. I have since figured out how to export to Excel for some different graphical representation. (Way easier than I thought!) Not too many kinks with converting it other than it […]

1. First, Count What You Normally Spend Making a budget doesn’t have to start with you figuring out how much money you should spend on food, drugs, alcohol, and clothing. I have seen plenty of attempts at budgeting fail because the person making it wasn’t realistic about where his/her money was going to go. Before […]

This is my first time giving you all my spending. Sure, it’s weird discussing money, but since I work in the public sector, my pay is publicly available for all of you to see already. I’m open for critiques anyway, so for all the financial bloggers out there, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Of […]