The car frenzy is in full swing at our house. Once I decide to do something, it’s usually pretty hard for me to think of anything else. So it’s no surprise that I’m still busy with the car search!
Background
First I made the commitment to sell my car, then I asked readers to tell me what [...]

Posted February 26, 2008 in Debt, Our budget | 4 Comments »

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I took the first steps and committed to selling my car. I’m ready to move from a “car I love” to a family car. Now I’m moving to the planning and research phases. I revisited my old criteria that I set in the fall and updated it to reflect our needs instead of [...]

Posted February 25, 2008 in Debt, Our budget | 11 Comments »

photo credit: BigMcGuire
So you’ve got a debt? What’s the first step in getting rid of it? Let’s take a look at one of my hot-button items in our budget and work through it. In the fall we decided not to sell my car just yet. However, now that spring is almost here it’s time [...]

Posted February 24, 2008 in Debt, Goals, Our budget | 1 Comment »

Just as I was finalizing our budget we got hit with some unexpected expenses. While the expenses themselves weren’t completely unexpected, the dollar amounts were. Adding in large ongoing expenses can completely throw off a sound financial plan if you aren’t careful.
Here’s the big three expenses that we just recently found out about:

Posted February 18, 2008 in Our budget | 13 Comments »

We just finished putting together our goals for 2008. Each year after finalizing our goals we put together a new budget for the year. In this series, we’ll take a look at how we budget, how we use it and our budget by category.
How We Create the Budget
We use last years budget as a starting point. [...]

Posted February 12, 2008 in Our budget | 2 Comments »