finances

3 Tips That Will Truly Help You to Manage Your Grocery Budget Better

October 12, 2011

Once upon a time, there was this girl who was very careful with her budget. So careful that her husband trusted her implicitly, and she carefully maintained her grocery budget with cash each month, so as not to overspend. She was so insistent that this method worked, she even wrote profusely on the topic.
This worked well for [...]

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Our Favorite Budget Management Tool

March 23, 2010

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My wonderful hubby, Ryan, is as busy as he can be, working on our new business, Resound School of Music. Nonetheless, he agreed to write this short review post of our favorite budgeting software, You Need a Budget, which keeps us in line each and every month.
Since he's the the one that [...]

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From the Wedding to Wise Stewardship- A Frugality Story Continued

January 23, 2008

As many of you guessed in the first installment, From Innocence to Irresponsibility, this story has a happy ending. Allow me to continue it...
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It was a humbling thing, to be engaged to a man who had no debt and actually saved up cash to make major purchases, while she was sitting nearly $30,000 in debt. [...]

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From Innocence to Irresponsibility-A Frugality Story

January 9, 2008

Once upon a time there was a little girl who couldn't understand why her clothes were bought at Value Village and Walmart, and why Santa didn't bring the right brand name items on her Christmas list. She hurriedly rushed out to spend every cent of her meager allowance on the cheap thrills of a 12 [...]

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