Weekly Review: Surviving Spending This week found me down visiting family and attending the crappy appointment that was making this month so awful. The silver lining is that the crappy stuff is now over and we can continue on with our regularly scheduled lives. Spending was a little more expensive this week in the ‘shopping category’ as I bought a … [Read more...] about Surviving June & Weekly Review: June 17 – 23
Monthly Challenges
Google-Fu and my Weekly Review: June 10-16
Spending Update: This week’s entertainment budget looks large this but it's including som extra purchases that I was reimbursed for: Under food and dining, I have $192 in spending. A hundred of that was for groceries for some cooking projects I had on the go this week. Other than that, entertainment and everything was on track over the past … [Read more...] about Google-Fu and my Weekly Review: June 10-16
June Challenge & Goals
Good evening everyone! Looks like a lot of my fellow bloggers have many noble goals for the month of June and I thought I'd contribute with my own monthly challenge! In May, I had challenged myself to track my spending using Quicken. This has been a super-fabulous-success and I think it was reporting back to you, readers, every week that … [Read more...] about June Challenge & Goals
A Financial Challenge Update: Track Spending Using Quicken
In a previous post, I said I wanted to start tracking my spending using Quicken as part of my "weekly" challenge series. As it turns out, "weekly" turned out to be three weeks since I grossly underestimated how much time it would take to enter in three months worth of expenses. Finally, however, I have inputted the last three months of expenses … [Read more...] about A Financial Challenge Update: Track Spending Using Quicken
Start Using Quicken: Financial Weekly Challenge
Up until quite recently, I had a problem with understanding where my money was going every month. I used to be quite good with tracking my finances but I had fallen away from those habits and was making mistakes again. I was forgetting when automatic payments were coming out of my account and having to scramble at the last minute to find the … [Read more...] about Start Using Quicken: Financial Weekly Challenge