tracking expenses

A Full Pantry

August 21, 2007

We spent a crapload of money this past weekend.  I didn’t like having to put everything into Microsoft Money to track our expenses, but then again, it’s not like we were out buying shoes and purses.  On Friday night, we went to a play with my brother and his girlfriend and her mother.  My brother’s [...]

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Expenses Mid-Month

August 13, 2007

We’re 13 days into tracking our expenses.  I’m using the same software that I use to keep track of our business income/expenses, and I’m having fun looking at all the nifty charts and graphs that it creates.  There haven’t been any big revelations, because I was pretty darn good at keeping track of everything in [...]

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Where Do Our Pennies Go?

July 26, 2007

In 1970, when my parents were newlyweds and struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, my mother started keeping track of their expenses.  They wanted to start building up a nest egg, but there didn’t seem to be anything left at the end of each month.  So she got a ledger book and wrote down every [...]

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