Archive for Misc.
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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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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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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...
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Day 257: Thank God It’s Cold
It’s finally cold here in Boston, and it’s about time. Fifty degree days in January in Boston, makes you want to run out and preach the gospel of recuded carbon emmisions. Today it is snowing and on Friday the high should be 14 degrees. Yes, that’s 14 degrees. And JLP was complaining…...
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Day 253: 5 Great Personal Finance Blogs
Today was a bill pay day for us, as is every 15th day of the month. Yes, I know it’s the 17th, but we schedule all of our bills on the 15th. They just don’t post until the 17th. But that’s not the point of this post. We’re here today to highlite 5 great personal finance blogs. So make the ju...
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Did You Get a Christmas Bonus?
Many companies have stopped giving Christmas bonuses, but now is the time for performance bonuses. What should you do with those bonuses? Well, the good folks over at the Bean Counter Blog have the answer. Using your bonus to further your finances should be the number one priority. While it wou...
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Day 239: Oh, money, where art though?
Lately, I have been having a lot of trouble collecting payments from clients. It seems that at the end of year, people just don’t want to pay you. Maybe it’s because their budgets have dried up, or maybe the cash flow just isn’t there. This is actually the first time that I may be stiffed o...
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You Can Get a Refund For The Extended Warranty That You Purchased For Your Car
A few years ago when we were not as wise as we are now about money, we purchased an extended warranty for our car. Boy was that a huge mistake. The reasons for not purchasing the extended warranty belong in another post, so I won’t go into them here. With the onset of car troubles that we had t...
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Day 231: Getting Caught Up
After a lengthy vacation, the first thing that I like to do is get caught up on the finances. I go through and update our money management software, iBank, and verify that any charges that were put on one of our rewards cards is immediately paid off. Since our “vacation” is over, this will be th...
