Budgeting Review – “By the Hour”

Even if you have read this blog before I encourage you to read it again if you are paid by the hour. I have updated the dates for your “extra paycheck” for the year and it will be a great reminder of your pay schedule. This blog fits under II. a. ~Hourly wages of our outline. And yes, I know how to correctly do a formal outline, however blogger will not cooperate and allow me to leave spaces. Consequently, I have improvised so that it can be clearly read… just had to add that 🙂 According to Forbes magazine, more …

Budgeting Review – “Simplicity”

The first step to setting up your budget is to determine your monthly budgetable income. In other words, the money after taxes that you have to pay your bills and to spend each month. The following blog was originally posted last year and covers the topic of determining your income from “Salary” – II. a. ~Albert Einstien once said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” There is a lot of complexity to finances, and sometimes it is difficult to find the simple answer. Sometimes the answer is so simple and obvious that you miss it …

How to Set Up Your Budget (an outline)

This is a simple outline that I am going to fill in in the next few days with information. For today, if you have not yet set up a finance binder or a system of organization for the paperwork of your finances then please read the blogs under Section I. If you have been following my blogs, and already have your paperwork organized, then I thought that seeing the process of setting up your budget outlined in this simple format may help you. If it is all new to you, then stay with me, because it will all be explained …