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The 50/30/20 budget plan is incredibly common.  You can’t search budget on Pinterest and not stumble upon a handful of pins touting its effectiveness.

If you blindly followed the masses you’d be swooned by the ease the 50/30/20 budget plan touts.  Does the fact it’s easy to use make it perfect? Continue reading

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Who wants to talk about budgeting for beginners?!  (crowd boos)

Yea, yea… I know.  Budgeting gets a bad rap.  It didn’t do anything wrong… people just tend to associate budgeting with a life of misery and deprivation. Continue reading

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As the clock strikes 12:00 on New Year’s Day, most people are swearing off carbs or giving up smoking.

New Year’s resolutions are made and given up at a blistering pace.  Finding someone who actually follows through on never eating a carb again is as rare as a real Sasquatch sighting.

Don’t give up carbs this year, give up poor financial habits!  Make New Year’s money resolutions this year! Continue reading

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Ho, Ho, Holy shit!  Has Christmas shopping totally destroyed your budget?  For years and years, my wife and I would set a “limit” on our Christmas spending.

I put “limit” in quotes because neither one of us paid any attention to it.  I’d become obsessed with buying every possible item I thought she’d like. Continue reading

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Budgeting… The Wrong Way

Recently I found some of my old budgeting tools and excel sheets.  For years I had assumed I was good with money and that by writing a few bills down on paper I was budgeting… Continue reading