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Budgeting Basics (Part 1): Laying Your Financial Foundation
If you know me, you know I love budgets. Like, borderline obsessive about it. My spreadsheets are simple works of art, delivering powerful, functional information that helps me get a handle on our...
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Budgeting Basics (Part 2): Tracking Your Income and Expenses
Welcome back to the budgeting basics series! Last week, we talked about creating a priorities list to use as a filter for where your money should go. I ended the post by suggesting that you should...
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Budgeting Basics (Part 4): Why You Should Get a Month Ahead
Of the many things I learned from Dave Ramsey, this is not one of them. This is something my mother-in-law suggested we do early in our marriage. She had been the single-parent of 3 children for over a...
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Budgeting Basics (Part 5): Your Savings Bucket
Don’t you hate it when you are cruisin’ along, rockin’ your awesome budget for the month and you get blindsided by unexpected expenses?! Thing like birthdays, Christmas and anniversaries pop up out of...
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Broke vs. Poor
To say that I have made poor choices with my money is an understatement. When I look back at all the stupid things I decided to do with money it sometimes hurts. By the time I turned age 21 I had...
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What Does $1 Mean To You?
Hello all you beautiful readers of iHeartBudgets! Don’t forget about our iPad 3 Giveaway! that is going on now! How many of these are wasted each month? Do you remember the first time you held a $1...
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Breaking the “Saving Money” Myth
Since we are entering the consumerism season, I thought I’d post an oldie (but a goodie) on why you should just avoid all the advertising NOISE out there and only spend money on “real” deals. If you...
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