Category Archives: Budgeting

$$: Fixed Expenses

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 1, 2010
I spent the whole stinkin’ day work­ing on my online store, didn’t leave the house, and still man­aged to spend a lot of money. Health Insur­ance Com­pany — $776.95 Well, now of course the spend­ing was indi­rect but the money was spent nonethe­less.  Jan­u­ary will be our sec­ond month of pay­ing our own health insur­ance; the pre­mi­ums are [...]
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At the Car Wash

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 13, 2009
Today was awfully close to being a no-spend day.  Unfor­tu­nately, the money I des­per­ately wanted to spend didn’t get spent.  I’ll explain but first let me item­ize the money I did spend. Car Wash — ~$5.00 The Out­back was filthy and the tem­per­a­ture was above freez­ing for the first time in over a week so I stopped at [...]
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Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 11, 2009
If this had been a nor­mal day, it would have been a no-spend day.  After all, it’s Fri­day and I typ­i­cally don’t have a car on Fri­day which means I’m stuck at home all day which means I’m not likely to spend money. But it wasn’t a typ­i­cal day.  No it was a there’s-no-milk-in-the-fridge-and-I’m-all-out-of-yogurt-too day.  What’s a [...]
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A Rockin’ App and A Missing App

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 1, 2009
Been mean­ing to put my admi­ra­tion and frus­tra­tions down in writ­ing for some time.  Right now seems as good a time as any (yup, you guessed it, I’m avoid­ing housework). ~ ~ o o O o o ~ ~ First, the rockin’ appli­ca­tion:  Drop­box.  Darned if this thing isn’t just the handiest! Here’s the con­cept:  Sign up, install appli­ca­tion [...]
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Plans and Goals for 2008

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 31, 2007
Tomor­row is the first day of a new year and I’m excited about some of my finan­cial and bud­get­ing goals and resolutions. Goals: YNAB Bud­get Decem­ber marks the third full month of using my YNAB Pro Bud­get­ing Soft­ware* and I’m excited to get a fresh new start tomor­row.  Instead of rolling over my 2007 data into 2008, The Hus­band [...]
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