Anyone else paid the 1st and 15th or the 15th and 30th of each month?
Why does it seem that when you are faced with a two and half week time frame between paychecks the earth stands still? I honestly thought that this coming Wednesday was April 1st and I would be getting paid. I [...]
My wife and I got to talking last night over dinner about how much better we are doing financially over the past few months than we were before and at the same time doing worse. Life is hard right now. Living within your means when you were accustomed to living well beyond them is difficult. [...]
Do you budget? Are you living on a budget? What kind of budget are you on? Is it helping your plasectomy?
In our home we follow a zero dollar based budget, something we have never done until the start of this year. I have detailed in the past how this is going for us and [...]
Do you have a zero dollar based budget?
This is something we have been trying to accomplish since January. January we failed miserably, this month we are doing better, next month I believe will be even better. Why is this? I wish I could say it was because we are running a very well oiled machine [...]
We did it!
Let me be the first to say that budgeting, really budgeting, is hard. In the past we only cared about what bill had to be paid from our accounts and what was left was ours to spend. There was no planning for an emergency, no lump sum planning, or even a blow money [...]
