Rules that work for any goal & money saving
July 24, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Doing it Yourself, faith
Life isn’t all that complicated – ok it is, but there are some basic rules that can be applied to most of life’s situations. For example…
College grades
Weight loss
Buying a home
Exercising more
Eating better
AND yes, of course saving money and more
For example:
Get support – no matter what you’re doing, having a baby, learning to in-line skate, creating a workable family budget to save up for a car, you can’t (or shouldn’t) do it alone. If your family is not on board with saving it’ll be harder. Just like if you’re trying to eat better and people keep bring ice cream into the …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
