Oct 24, 2018 | Budgeting, Goal Setting, Savings |
I’m half Italian. That means my diet is highly susceptible to pasta, pizza, parmigiana, bread, gelato and wine. The other half of me is Irish, so you can throw beer into the mix too (and lots of it). If that wasn’t enough, I married a girl with Italian and...
Jul 31, 2018 | Budgeting, Goal Setting, Savings |
If your family life is anything like ours…. it’s hectic! The weekdays fly by and there’s something on every weekend for at least the next month. It seems there’s not enough hours in the day or days in the week. However, because the hours in...
Jun 12, 2018 | Budgeting, Credit Cards, Goal Setting, Savings |
Wondering whether you should pay off your credit card or save? This is a question I get all too often. Yep, the old ‘pay off credit card debt or build savings first’ debate. “Chris, I’ve got credit card debt of $2,000 and a $8,000 personal...
Jun 2, 2018 | Bank Accounts, Budgeting, Goal Setting, Holidays / Vacations, Savings |
Having separate bank accounts for budgeting is a must. This is an essential part of the household budgeting process, especially if you want your budget to run simply and smoothly. Segregating types of expenditure helps to identify your priorities, ensure all expenses...
Apr 15, 2018 | Budgeting, Goal Setting, Savings |
Okay, so let’s not pull any punches here… household budgeting sucks. You know it sucks, I know it sucks. I mean, really, there’s a gazillion other things that you’d prefer to be doing than wading through bank and credit card statements, trying to figure out how much...
Feb 7, 2018 | Budgeting, Goal Setting, Savings |
Having objectives for your family budget is integral to the success of your budget. In fact, objectives are important in most things we do – family budgeting just being one of them. Wow… that sounds so boring. Let’s re-word that. What is the purpose of a budget? Well,...