Not Made Of Money

Now is a great time to review your 2006 expenses and make adjustments to your Budget/Spending Plan for 2007.  The way we do this is to use our Quicken Finance Program.  We run two reports and print them.  The first one is the 2006 Income/Expense Report.  This lists each category of income or expense for 2006 [...]

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She says:
I am a real bargain hunter and consider myself pretty good at finding “great deals”. My local Target store is one of the places where I have had the most success. If you didn’t already know, Target has a regular method of clearancing merchandise, and will follow a progression of marking things down to [...]

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Someone asked me the other day how to budget money.  I had written an article on that topic a while ago.  So check out How To Create A Budget which includes a link for a free budget worksheet. 
If you do not know how to budget money, then take small baby steps in learning how.  It is much [...]

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He says:
When you get married, your life and your money become one.  It is no longer, this is mine and that is yours.  It is this is ours.  100% of everything you have together is hers and 100% is his. Or sometimes when you first get married and you do not have much money, you [...]

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She says:
I was reading this article on the

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It amazes me how some people are simply afraid of a budget.  A budget is nothing more than a plan for spending your money.  You can plan to spend all of it, you can plan to spend some of it.  But, to get control of your finances, you must plan how, when and where you [...]

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So you’ve made your budget and it looks good on paper. Great! Now it is time to implement it. But are you ready to follow the budget you’ve developed? Here are some helpful tips to keep you on track with your budget.
1. Determine why you made a budget. There is a reason you have put [...]

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