Recent Posts Tagged With 'budgeting'

• Suburban Genie: My Three Financial Do-Overs

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 08:53 in mortgage, Cars, finance, personal finance, wishes, credit, saving, automobiles, planning, spending, budgeting, genie

  All of the credit for this post should go to Adam over at Your Money Relationship for coming up with this Money Genie post idea. Basically the idea boils down to what three things about your financial past would you change given the chance.  While I...

• Budgeting 101 - Why Budgets Fail

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 08:57 in personal finance, saving, planning, budgeting, financial management

  So far we have talked about tracking your spending, and setting up your budget. In this last installment of my Budgeting 101 series I want to touch on some of the problems people encounter with budgeting. Your budget is a fluid thing and requires per...

• Budgeting 101 - Set Your Budget

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 09:00 in budget, finance, personal finance, spending, budgeting, gnucash

  Now that you have spent a month tracking your spending, or at least gone back and accounted for a months worth of spending it is time to setup your budget. Next week we will talk about maintaining and reassessing your budget. Creating a budget is th...

• Budgeting 101 - Know Your Spending

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 09:02 in Software, finance, personal finance, credit, savings, planning, budgeting

  This is the first part of a three part series on budgeting I plan to run for the next three Wednesday’s.  I will discuss what I feel are the three critical pieces of budgeting, 1.) Know Your Spending, 2.) Creating Your Budget, and 3.) Tracking...

• Budgeting With GNUCash

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 09:00 in Software, personal finance, open source, budgeting, gnucash, finance software

  After writing my “Using GNUCash to manage your personal finances” series I have been getting quite a bit of traffic looking for information on Budgeting in GNUCash. I touched on it lightly but I don’t think I really did it justice. ...