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January 2017 Blog Income Report
This Month’s Top Post: How I use Smart Things for Home Automation - 329 Views this month. Originally posted in January 2016 This Month’s Runner Up: 2016 Review and 2017 Goals - 294 Views This month I hit quite a large milestone! 5K Followers! I'm now officially half way to my goal of 10k. I also had more income than typical and I have no idea why. I just got lucky I guess! January 2017 INCOME STATEMENT Revenue Ads – $216.40 Sponsored Posts – $5 Total: $221.40 Expenses Tailwind – $10..00 Domain – $1.26 Hosting - $6.99 Etsy - $0.80 Total: $19.05 NET ...
Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Reverse Budgeting and the Digital System
This post is part of a series. To start the series from the beginning, click here. To browse through the series, click here. A digital budgeting system utilizes credit cards, checking accounts, online interfaces, apps, and many other technological opportunities. All your budgeting and tracking is kept in digital form and you are responsible for sticking to your budget without having tangible money to stop you from over-spending. Budgeting Tools Envelopes Envelopes are a great budgeting option for the digital system as seen above in the cash system. The main difference here is that the envelopes are digital and act ...
2017 Garden Plan
Update: 2023 Garden Plan! Hello everyone! It's about gardening time again! I made this plan last year for the 2017 gardening season and of course I'm moving right in the middle of it. So, I'm going to skip the onion this year and do as much as I can before we have to move. I think I'm going to use a lot of pots instead. Either way, I hope you enjoy the cinder block garden plot. 🙂 ...
How I Saved $40k by the time I was 21
Hi everyone and welcome back! Every month, I share a post on my series about how to stop living Paycheck to Paycheck. Budgeting is something that is learned and it is my hopes that this series will provide some great stepping stones to help people. The series will run through June of 2017 but if you want the whole book now, you can get it here. Growing up, all of my friends thought I had no money because I rarely went to the movies or bought random crap at the gas station. In fact, it was quite the opposite. I was ...
