Year: 2007

Tracking my finances in June: day 14

Welcome to my daily tracking of income and expenses for the month. Income for the day: $20.00 Expenses for the day: $15.58 Income for the month to date: $762.80 Expenses for the month to date: $890.14 Net effect: -$127.34 Ouch! My cash flow looks very bad.

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How to get out of credit card late fees…and save yourself some money

Step one: pay your bills on time. Step two: lather, rinse, repeat. However, if for some strange reason you do get a payment sent in late just try to be calm and call the company. That is what I did. I have my payments all set up in Electric Orange to go out automatically every month. Well I think I must have tweaked some of...

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Tracking my finances in June: day 13

Welcome to my daily tracking of income and expenses for the month. Income for the day: $0.00 Expenses for the day: $39.25 Income for the month to date: $742.80 Expenses for the month to date: $874.56 Net effect: -$131.76 The expenses for the day were for food and for clothing. I mentioned earlier that I work at the bookstore...

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Tracking my finances in June: day 12

Welcome to my daily tracking of income and expenses for the month. Income for the day: $0.00 Expenses for the day: $35.00 Income for the month to date: $742.80 Expenses for the month to date: $835.31 Net effect: -$92.51 I really need to get some money coming in because I hate to see this negative cash flow for the day. The...

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Yes that was ME in front of you today….

…driving ssssslllloooowwwllllyyy up to the red light. I will never understand why people rev up their engines when they can clearly see a red light up ahead. If I see a red light I take my foot off the gas and coast up to the light. In fact I do this sometimes when I see the orange light ahead. I figure that by the time...

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