Personal Budgeting Styles & Tools

Personal budgeting can be a different process for each person.  When I talked about how personal budget tracking can save you money, I used an example of how my employer saves money by tracking each piece of paper we print.
I showed how the act of tracking each job before it’s printed and assigning it to [...]

Personal Budget Tracking Creates Results

Does your personal budget have holes in it, where the money just oozes out without you realizing it?  Do you have a system in place to track how the money in your budget is actually spent?
If not, here’s a story that might convince you to track your money more closely. It begins several years ago [...]

Missing a Mortgage Payment

I’ve written before about the dangers of online bill pay, one of the dangers I mention is assuming all your bills are paid automatically.  The advice I gave is to check your statements regularly, even if the payments are automated.
Well, I didn’t take my own advice and I got a call from my mortgage company today [...]

Summer Spending Trends

Do you tend to spend more money in the summer or less?  We spend more time doing outside activities that cost nothing, like going to the park or going for a walk.  But typically we do tend to do more travelling in the summer which can add up pretty quick.
Quicken Online looked at how people reported [...]

Costs of Raising Children – Kid Expenses Continued

Yesterday I wrote about the costs of raising children and got a few emails reminding me of some of the costs that I left off the list.  I don’t know how I missed some of these like childcare and insurance since they’re pretty big chunks of money.  I guess there are so many expenses it’s [...]

Costs of Raising Children

Being a parent can be a lot of fun but it can also be quite expensive.  If you’re thinking about having children, make sure you budget in enough cash each month for all the different ways kids can cost you money.
Health Care
Medicine
It seems kids, at least young ones, are always getting sick.  I’m sure part of it [...]

Save Money by Selling Your Car?

Selling your car could save you significant amounts of money over the long term on maintenance, parking, insurance, and fuel according to the Financial Planning Association.  Of course not everyone can go without a vehicle but here are some questions to ask yourself if you’re considering selling your car to help save money.
What’s the current [...]

Financial Advisor Profile – Jean Keener

Jean Keener is another financial planner I had the pleasure of meeting in person after the financial advisor websites list I put together a while back. As we chatted about financial planning and blogging I was reminded of the search my wife and I went on to find a financial planner right after we were married. 
Finding [...]

How Much Money are You Hiding in Your Swiss Bank Account?

The Bank Secrecy Act requires United States citizens holding a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, a bank, securities or other financial account in a foreign country to report these accounts to the government.
Of course just because there’s a law requiring you to report the money doesn’t mean that people have abided [...]

Quicken Discounts Thanks to Microsoft Money

Quicken discounts of $20 off Quicken Deluxe and Quicken Premier are available for the next two weeks. Intuit is running the special offer since the personal finance software Microsoft Money is no longer available for sale.
Microsoft Money Discountinued
Although Microsoft Money will be supported through the end of 2010 many long time Money users are up in [...]

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