Cut your money worries
August 21, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under budget
Cutting your money worries can be tough. Especially in the current economy. Some of us do have major money worries – maybe we’ve been laid off or had hours cut. Maybe we shop too much or gamble. However, even people without actual hardcore money worries do spend time worrying about cash flow. With some of the following ideas you can cut your money worries and maybe sleep a little better at night.
First two extremes – don’t budget the checkbook OR budget to an excess. I’m a budget to an excess type. I have to know where every single penny is …read more
Yearly tracking tips for your finances
May 19, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under finances, financial matters
Annually there are some specific tasks you should be doing when it comes to your finances. You can break your basic financial tasks down into easy monthly chunks.
Monthly: (Note – I actually do many of these tasks on a daily or weekly basis, depending on the task, however, at the very least do the following once a month).
You should balance your checkbook at least once.
Check your bank statements for errors.
Sort bills and pay them. Then decide which bills to keep (see below).
Sort your bills to keep into a folder, file cabinet, or other sort of safe-keeping system.
Every 3-6 months: …read more
