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Image by Marcin Wichary via Flickr TV is causing problems in my life. We watch too much TV. Often, we’re only watching because there’s a crappy show in between two shows we do want to watch. In the winter-during the new seasons-my son has wrestling practice 4 or 5 nights per week, which means I miss the [...] June 4th, 2010 | Tags: budget, Television, TiVo | Category: Finance | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Subscribe |
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Image via Wikipedia People say that when you have a baby, your world gets flipped upside down. That’s not true. Your world gets dropped in a martini shaker and left to the whims of a sadistic bartender with a shaking fetish. Everything changes. That sounds like an exaggeration and nobody believes it until it happens, but [...] May 24th, 2010 | Tags: baby, budget | Category: Finance, Parenting | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Subscribe |
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When we initially developed our budget, we built it tight. Every penny was accounted for and had a place to go. I was so proud. Money, money Unfortunately, there were some problems with habitual-even compulsive-shopping in our house. The change from “whatever we wanted” to “it’s not budgeted” was too much, too fast. After a few months of [...] May 10th, 2010 | Tags: blow money, budget | Category: Finance | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Subscribe |
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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 [...] April 28th, 2010 | Tags: budget | Category: Finance | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Subscribe |
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