Today is payday. Yes I get paid twice a month. I don’t hate getting paid this way but it never seems to match with my bills. I have been paid every other week and weekly at past jobs. I kind of liked being paid weekly as cash seemed to always be just around the corner. [...]
April 6 – 13
It has been a busy week with work and home; I was finally able to get some cash. I have been able to discover some benefits already. I have been only using my local bank to do transactions. This effectively brought my accounts from 5 down to one. By working with cash [...]
April 2
I don’t have any cash yet as it takes 3 days for a paper check to clear the bank. Somehow I forgot the days like today. Knowing you have money but cannot access it while watching the gas gauge getting closer to empty. I do not normally carry cash with me so I have [...]
I used to track our finances very closely. However the last few years I have had problems keeping up. With my finances a mess I had to try something.
I used Quicken from about 1995 through 2001. Starting out with a version that came with a Macintosh, I then bought a PC and bought a PC [...]
MrsMicah asked in her blog yesterday, “when do the savings kick in?”
That question and the comments that followed started my brain working. What is it to save money? Money saved is money you don’t spend or is it money you actually put in a savings account? If it is in a savings account what are [...]
