Frugality Advice For Good Times and Bad
Cutting the cable (or satellite dish) is much easier than most of us think and it can be set up with just a few pieces of equipment and can be active in less than half a day and watch many of your favorite shows and even watch sports. A few months ago my family and I decided to cut the cable and are …
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A few weeks ago I rolled out our guide to cutting the cable and while the response has been great, a number of people have asked me if it’s possible to cut the cable and still watch sports. Well I’m one of the biggest sports nuts you’ll ever meet and let me tell you that if I couldn’t watch sports …
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There are any number of ways to improve your personal finances but out of all methods budgeting stands alone as one of the most important aspects of building up your own personal wealth. The most important part of a budget is for it to be realistic. Budget guidelines are great, but you aren't …
In the late summer of 2010 we paid off my minivan. The payment was $460 per month. Instead of just absorbing that money into our monthly budget we opened a separate savings account and continued to make that payment to ourselves. In Feb of 2012 we had enough in that savings account to pay off …
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Well, I don’t HATE coupons, but I’m actually not a big fan of them. Don’t freak out! Let me explain. Coupons encourage shopping, and when you are shopping, you are spending money. I can hear you now, “But when I use a coupon I’m saving money!” If you are using the coupon to buy something you …
Being a budget coach people always want to rationalize their purchases to me. If I'm sitting with a family who has always had a $70 a month cell phone plan and it suddenly jumps to $200 a month they feel they need to rationalize why they got smart phones. "We neeeeeded it!" they cry. Ok, …
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