Critter Chronicles
Financial Health
One Bite: Week Seven
Bite Number 41: Create A Chore System That Works For The Whole Family As with quite a few of the ‘Bites’ in this book, this was something I had planned to do before I purchased the book, and it just works out for me that I can use this as one of my tasks this … Continue reading
Busyness and Blogging Excuses
Things have been so busy – both in terms of scheduled activities and brain activities – that I haven’t even thought to sit down and write a coherent blog post lately. SO MUCH has happened in the past two (three?) weeks that I barely know where to begin, so I’ll just go for it. My … Continue reading
Menu Plan Monday: 31 October to 6 November
I still haven’t figured out what to do with myself and The Critters when Tony’s not home on weekends. While we’ve never been the type to plan every minute of our Saturdays and Sundays, we usually always spend them together as a family. When he’s not in town I find myself at a loss. I’ve … Continue reading
WFMW: Homemade Powdered Laundry Detergent
I subscribe to a lot of blogs. Some are parenting, some are military family, some are cooking. Others include finance and “clean living”, and in the past few years I’ve seen many entries to the “make your own laundry detergent” category in those last two. Long before Anthony was born I made the switch to … Continue reading
>If I Could, I’d Be DONE Being Responsible. But I Can’t.
>I originally wrote this post on Critter Chronicles but moved it here because it’s a bit more appropriate on this blog than on that one. The short of it is I’m still getting over being sick, and I’m tired. Here’s what happens in my head when those two factors get into a major car accident … Continue reading
>Creating a Budget: Step Five
> Making Cutbacks, Trimming the Fat - Making It Work After plugging all the numbers into your budget worksheet, hopefully you found money left over after accounting for all your monthly expenses. But if you didn’t, today’s post will help you figure out how to get to that point. Here’s the thing: you’ll probably notice … Continue reading
>Creating a Budget: Step Four, part two
> Creating a Working Budget, part two Yesterday we input all the concrete numbers into our budget; the expenditures that we must absolutely pay in order to keep ourselves fed, housed, clothed, and getting to and from work, as well as keeping the creditors from calling. Today we’re going to work with the more abstract … Continue reading
>Creating a Budget: Step Four, part one
> Creating a Working Budget, part one I said it before, and I’ll repeat it again: you cannot create a usable budget during a thirty minute lunch break. If you want to set yourself up for success, you need to be prepared for this to be a process. For me it is ever-evolving; the budget … Continue reading
>Creating a Budget: Working as a Couple
> I realize I gave you a pretty big task yesterday in telling you to work on creating an “as-is” budget in order to figure out how you’ve been spending your money. So today, rather than jumping straight into the creation of your working budget (plus I’m late in publishing this post today) I want … Continue reading
>Creating a Budget: Step Three
> Creating an “As-Is” Budget Today I’m going to talk about the third step in creating a working budget. This may seem unnecessary, and if you want to skip it (or any other step, for that matter) go right ahead. But for me and Tony, doing an initial budget where we plugged in our current … Continue reading
