An In-Depth Look At An Actual Family Budget Report In our 2019 home budget report, I will share with you our budget fails and changes that we’ve made to our 2020 family monthly budget. Your budget will never be perfect so always expect fluctuations in what you plan for and what happens. For instance, you…
START YOUR HOME BUDGET PLANNING NOW WITH THESE SIMPLE STEPS With the New Year upon us, it’s time to start thinking about your 2020 Home Budget Plan so you’re organized come January. To do this I suggest a few simple tasks that won’t take much effort or time but will be valuable for you in…
IF THERE’S ONE LIFE SKILL YOU WANT TO MASTER IT’S HOW TO MANAGE YOUR FINANCES. Every January social media lights up with posts about debt, money, savings, retirement, divorce, marriage and spending habits. Magically I see an influx of traffic to the blog that is out of the ordinary with searches always leading to…
MAKE MONEY NOW, SAVE IT, SPEND IT AND START ALL OVER AGAIN If another month has come and gone and you have failed to balance your budget that doesn’t mean your efforts failed you. It simply means you need to focus on budget categories that need attention, bringing in more money and spending less….
BALANCE IS NEVER A STEADY VARIABLE IN FINANCE I often hear that a budget is ready to go once it is balanced but a balanced budget doesn’t mean that it can’t incur hiccups along the way. Someone asked me how we could possibly budget every single month. “Isn’t it time-consuming?” After a bit of…
SPEND WISELY AND STAY ON TRACK Sure spending money sounds pretty easy to do but it’s not that easy when you just don’t have the time to spend. If you have kids and work full-time, appointments, chores etc. finding that time to spend becomes smaller and smaller. Many people spend out of boredom which…
