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Cthulhu's Guide to Finance

This is a guest post from Cthulhu, written in his house at R’lyeh. In the eons of his imprisonment, he has never contributed a blog post…until now. Be nice, this is his first post ever.

Cthulhu fhtagn. Cthulhu waits. Eons in R’lyeh-dead but dreaming-have taught me well the virtue of patience. Rush not into the abyss of [...]

Budget Lesson, Part 8

This is a continuation of the budget series. See these posts for the history of this series.

This time, I’m looking at our discretionary budget. These are the things that don’t have a fixed cost. Any individual item is largely optional, and, ultimately, we don’t track these purchases closely. At the [...]

Chains of Servitude Update

It’s been almost exactly one year since I told my wife that we were either going to take control of our finances or file bankruptcy.

At that time, we were spending at least $500 more each month than we made, and often, it was $1000 more. We had more than $5000 accumulated on our overdraft line of [...]

Link Roundup

Doctor appointments, speeding tickets and too much work. That’s what this week has been made of.

30 pieces of silver

Finance links:

Why do the non-politician folks who want taxes raised think a fund for voluntarily paying extra is stupid? If they were sincere, they’d be contributing to that from the start. As it is, it’s just a [...]