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December 12, 2017

7 Ways Supermarkets Trick You into Spending More Than You Should (and Ways to Beat Them)

Why is it so difficult to stay on budget during a trip to the supermarket? Why do you always seem to spend more than you planned? The biggest reason: ...

June 25, 2016

Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Beginning Growth

This post is part of a series. To start the series from the beginning, click here. To browse through the series, click here. The pre-teen years ar...

September 9, 2015

Low Spend September – 5 Tips

Every year around early fall and also in mid winter, I get the bug to stop spending money. This is probably because I’m so into my home projec...

September 2, 2015

Money Saving Patience

I have the smallest backyard ever! At least, one of the smallest backyards in my neighborhood. One of my biggest issues with my backyard...

August 26, 2015

Reconciling your Savings

Last week, we discussed how to reconcile your checking account based on your projections. This week, we will begin reconciling the savings account a...

August 5, 2015

Using Your Excel Spreadsheet to Build Rainy Day Savings

Now that we have our savings account created and have determined our saving schedule, we can use our spreadsheet to predict how long it will take to b...

July 15, 2015

How to Use Excel to Project Your Savings – Part 1

Today I will be showing you “How to Use Excel to Project Your Savings- Part 1”. For this example, we will begin our projections in January and end...