The following quick tip comes from Tacy from Homemaking Habits and Love Baby Beck: We needed a simpler way to keep track of expenses, so we turned a bulletin board into a method for tracking our income and expenses.  How-To First, we labeled the various categories, and after this photo was taken, we added the [...]

Earlier this week, we talked about your best financial tips, tools for budgeting and the pros and cons of different investment options. Today, I want to take a look at some additional financial tools that may help you stick to your budget and save for financial goals. Creating Sinking Funds or Bucket Accounts Some people [...]

The following is a guest post from Ron at The Wisdom Journal: So you’re ready to begin investing. You’ve paid off all your high interest debt, have 3 to 6 months of living expenses socked away in a liquid account, and you’ve developed a working budget that leaves cash each month for investing in the [...]

Before I get started sharing the pros and cons of various budgeting programs, I wanted to point you to the comments on Monday’s question of the day. Many readers have been sharing tips for budgeting, and it’s definitely worth the read! In the past, I’ve used software programs like Quicken for our personal and business [...]

This week we’ll be talking about organizing your finances, with a look at various budget programs, investment options and tools for meeting your savings goals. To kick it off, I thought I’d start with a question of the day: How do you organize your finances? Do you use a budget? What budget system do you [...]