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Time is Money, an apology and course correction to save(er)

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Clearly I’ve not been very good at participating in this project with Saver.  I keep saying I will post, only to disappoint Saver by not doing so. I’m sorry I’ve not held up my end of the stick. I promised to post twice a week nearly a month ago and haven’t even posted once in [...]

Free Money!

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

We’ve had quite a bit of “extra” money this month, by which I mean non-paycheck money. Most of it was things we were expecting, but they all happened to come through at the same time:
1) IRS rebate checks ($480.88 for me and $600 for Spender).
2) Proceeds from selling Spender’s half of a sailboat ($1038). This [...]

Personal Finance Meets Personal Fitness

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

As someone who reads a lot of personal finance blogs, one thing that surprised me was the degree of connection between personal finance and personal fitness. Not only the analogies (e.g., spending more money than you earn is a lot like eating more calories than you burn — both give short term pleasure but are [...]

Time to get serious

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Goal for tomorrow:
1) Sit down and figure out where we’ve spent money in the last 6 weeks
2) Figure out a way to regularly track spending going forward
I’ve used Microsoft money and mint.com in the past, but now i’ve actually created my own excel program that does everything the way I want it to. I [...]

Coming Clean

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Like any good personal finance blogger, I plan to post regular (monthly?) updates on my progress of paying down debt and savings toward goals. My finances are just starting to get settled after we moved to Amsterdam in April. I had been holding on to some cash because I wasn’t too sure about how much [...]

The beginnings of all things are small

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I’m a Saver. He’s a Spender. This is the story of how we make that work and achieve our financial (and other) goals.
I want to start this blog mainly as a way to give us some accountability in both our finances and the way we deal with them together. It’s also a way to get [...]