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Savings Accounts

Vacationing on a Budget

October 1, 2009

If you’ve been around for the last couple of weeks, you know that my family and I went to the beach recently. We stayed in an ocean front condo for two weeks, ate out, played mini golf, went bowling, bought ice cream cones, and generally lived in a much less frugal way than we usually [...]

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My Multiple Savings Accounts (and how to get your own)

July 28, 2009

In the past when I’ve mentioned my various savings categories (like our vacation savings, or our electricity savings), I’ve had a lot of readers ask how I keep all of this organized. My secret is multiple savings accounts at ING Direct. A number of budgeting gurus advocate the envelope system where you have a paper [...]

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The Monthly Money Email

July 9, 2009

Today, I’m going to write about the method my husband I use to communicate about money.  While it’s nothing complicated or innovative, it has been an incredibly useful tool for us.  I don’t think that this is the only way to talk about money…really, any method that consistently keeps both spouses informed and up-to-date will [...]

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Goal Update for July (and June, since I missed it!)

July 7, 2009

I’m not quite sure why, but I never did a goal post in June. Weird. I’m here with one for July, albeit a little late. My May update is here and if you’d like to see the original post, just click here. Cereal Avoidance We’re doing fairly well with this despite the warm weather. Zoe [...]

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Why I don’t do budget billing.

January 8, 2009

Whenever I’ve talked about my utility bills and how we deal with them, someone usually mentions Budget Billing and asks if I’ve considered using that service.  So, I thought maybe I should explain why I choose not to do that. First, for those of you who are new, here’s what we do.  We budget $200 [...]

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Oh, joy of joys!

November 26, 2008

I already posted this afternoon, but I just had to post again to share some happy news.  I’ve written before about how we’ve been trying to save up some money for the winter-time electric bills(for those of you that are new, we budget $200 a month, and whenever our bill is lower than that, we [...]

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