I’ve been taking a Bible study offered by Crown Financial Ministries. It’s a well put-together study that involves scripture memorization, Bible verse study, group discussion, practical exercises, and more. This past week’s topic was debt, and not surprisingly, the Bible doesn’t have too many good things to say about debt 🙂 and encourages people to … Read more
In Part 1 of this series, I explained the motivation for cracking out Quicken to get a handle on our family’s finances for this year’s tax season and beyond. I began by entering our primary checking account’s transactions for 2010. Along the way, I created accounts in Quicken for the other financial vehicles we have … Read more
This weekend I told my newsletter subscribers that I was starting up on my taxes. Since I have about three months left, there’s plenty of time to try to do it right, and set up an organized set of financial records in the process. I’m starting with a lot of financial statements, a whole box … Read more
Bart, over at the Personal Finance and Money Stack Exchange site, lacks discipline with tracking his finances. He asks: I have had very little success with managing money. I have gone bankrupt once ($50K in credit card debt) and since then I no longer have credit cards (just a debit card) but my spending is … Read more
The end-of-year holidays are festive for most people: attending parties, decorating, giving gifts, listening to music, visiting family, eating a bit too much. At work it sometimes means announcement of raises or year-end bonuses when there’s profit to be shared. People may be entering the new year with a fatter wallet and a bigger paycheck. … Read more
It’s the holiday shopping season. Already. Again. Where does the time go? (Minute by minute, I’m told.) Two thousand eleven will be upon us in only a month. Here are a few tasks that are worth doing to tie a financial bow on 2010: Review your health and dental care choices if you have them … Read more
Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005. She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have. (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then never hear about it again, … Read more
We all need food, clothing, and shelter. Here are actionable tips to save money on these basic needs … We may think that we need a lot of things. We may think we need cable TV, our morning coffee and bagel, a couple of pints at the pub each Friday, or a really big house … Read more