Archive for June, 2007

2 Steps to Change your Financial Habits

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

As part of my quarterly financial roundup and the continuous quality improvement(CQI) project that is my life, I spent my day off last weekend going through my filing cabinet. I was looking in my various folders for lost pieces of obscure information(what was my last Heb B titer?) and trying to squeeze some more […]

Our Tipping Point: Some more random history

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

When I stop and think about it, managing our finances shouldn’t be that hard. If you get down to the basics you just need more money coming in than you have money going out. Very original thoughts, I know. When I realized that I was in over my head in late […]

Encounters with a Financial Planner

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Other than the addition of a new line to my Monthly Updates I haven’t expanded much on the $4000 I invested in a Traditional IRA to take advantage of tax savings for 2006. Because the decision to invest was a last minute decision based upon my tax return I had not done any due […]

Quick Update for New Readers:

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

To all the new readers from Credit Card Lowdown Welcome. For a little more background please see my About page. I will have to say that I am excited about how far I have come from February 2006. I also realize that I have a long way to go with […]

Monthly Update: May 2007(-66,022.91, +$2,202.49)

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Well the month of May is finally over and it was a busy one for us. Since May was a five week month I was expecting a better end result but five weeks of expenses cut into our savings budget. Here is how things break down.

Our Guidance for this month:

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