Archive for January, 2007
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One Month Challenge Day 30
Previously at We’re In Debt, we said that we were going to take the One Month Challenge offered up at the Simple Dollar, to track our spending for the month of January to find out if we had any spending leaks in our bucket, to prepare ourselves to better meet our goals for 2007. Make the jump ...
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01/31/2007
I haven’t had a chance to hook up the dynamic sidebar, so this Running Total post is a manual entry. Our current debt balance is $22,071.10. We are currently at 78% from where we started. Today we threw $2,298.54 at our debt....
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Day 266: Looking Out Into the Near Future
Alot of us make long term goals, like buying a house or saving retirement. We also make short term personal finance goals like creating an emergency fund or paying off a credit card. One thing that we have been trying to work on, is planning for our immediate financial needs. Sometime we find our...
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One Month Challenge Day 29
Previously at We’re In Debt, we said that we were going to take the One Month Challenge offered up at the Simple Dollar, to track our spending for the month of January to find out if we had any spending leaks in our bucket, to prepare ourselves to better meet our goals for 2007. Make the jump ...
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Day 265: Tracking Your Spending On a Daily Basis
One of the things that we have learned during the one month challenge is that tracking your spending on a daily basis is not easy. In fact it is very difficult. We have done our best to track the actual dollars that we have spent. I am sure that we may have missed something, but in the end we will...
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Day 264: On the Move Again…Maybe
Long time readers of the site may remember that I changed jobs about 200 posts ago. You may also remember post from a few days ago detailing further reasons why you should build your emergency fundup to it’s fullest. I haven’t been actively looking for a new job, but I have benn listening to...
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Taking A Look At Debt Snowball Calculators
There are quite a few debt snowball calculators online. Many of them are fairly basic. The following is a quick review of a few of them. The first debt snowball calculator comes from What’s the Cost. This calculator allows you to enter all of your information on your credit cards. It takes int...
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Day 259: Red Sox Tickets Go On Sale, We Won’t be Buying
Red Sox tickets are going on sale this Staturday for all of the games this season, and we won’t be buying. We’ve bought tickets in previous years, but this year we are going to opt out. We have already purchased a pair of standing room only tickets, in an earlier ticket sale, for one game, but t...
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8 Ways To Save At The Grocery Store and Stay On Budget
Your grocery budget can be the leakiest part of your budget if you are not careful. Without the proper planning, you may find yourself a couple hundred dollars over your monthly very quickly. Here are some tips to help you stay under budget, and save some cash, at the grocery store. 1. Don’t shop...
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Day 258: Netflix Saves Us Money
There has been a lot of blog chatter about dumping Netflix. For us, Netflix is a real money saver. We don’t really go out, and when we do it’s to go walk around the Arnold Arboretum, since that it is free. We also don’t like going to the movies, as they are typically not that great and...
