Tag archives for budgeting
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Smartphones
Today is the start of a new series of posts that I'm calling Penny Wise, Pound Foolish. As you know, this blog has always concentrated on ways to budget and…
Budgeting: The Envelope Method
Do you know how to budget? Lord knows I talk about it enough. If you look over my extensive posting history here, you'll see that I talk about budgeting virtually…
Holiday Credit Card Debt
Happy Groundhog Day, Queercents readers! It is I, your friendly neighborhood vlogger, back from hiatus with a new blog post on holiday credit card debt. I know the holidays are…
Wedding Budgeting: Con’s and Pro’s for LGBT Folks
My partner and I are about ten months away from getting married, so the hardcore budgeting process is underway. I tend to be the hater of spreadsheets and anything formal…
Vlog: Implementing a Budget
Good evening, Queercents readers. As you will recall from my previous post on building a budget, so this week is of course information on how to implement a budget, plus…
When it’s Not About the Money
I'm a big fan of the budget, which Planners euphemistically call a 'œcash flow plan'. I'm not rigid about it but I like to have a reasonable, conscious target to…
Mindfulness Saves Money
It's been four weeks now so it can't be a fluke! A little inspiration and some mindfulness has saved us $250/month on our food budget. Recently I read about a…
Learning to budget after my big gay divorce
I recently went through a big gay divorce, which makes for lots of great posts about finances, but hasn't made for much emotional motivation to write about them. I've been…
Do we really need everything that we want?
It's interesting that when the price of gas dropped so dramatically in the past several months that consumption never rose to the levels before the high cost caught us off…
The Simplicity of Budgeting: 7 simple steps
I'm not a big fan of budgets, I think it's the detailed information that drives me nuts. I like to keeps things as simple as possible and then adjust as…