From the monthly archives:

April 2011

Envelope Budgeting for the iPhone with Ez Budget

April 28, 2011

I just released a new budgeting app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s called Ez Budget – Quick Envelope Budgeting and it is available on the iTunes store now. What is Envelope Budgeting? Envelope budgeting is a method of budgeting that has been around forever and has recently been made popular again by Dave […]

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Should Baby Step 1 be More Than 1000 Dollars?

April 24, 2011

If you’ve followed this blog at all you know I’m a big fan of Dave Ramsey and his baby steps. Step one is to save up $1000 in an emergency fund. I had a conversation the other with a couple that thought it should be more than one thousand so I thought I’d go over […]

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Using “Walk Away” Power When Negotiating

April 17, 2011

Negotiating can be hard, but it can also be a lot of fun. My wife and I have been working hard for a long time now getting out of debt and saving up 3-6 months of emergency fund, so we’ve cut back as much spending as we could. One of the things we decided we […]

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Get to Work!

April 13, 2011

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and […]

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