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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 [...]
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 [...]