July 8, 2006

• Mvelopes Interview with Lisa

  Mvelopes Personal is one of the three budgeting systems that I recommend, and I recently had the pleasure of giving away a free year's of Mvelopes Personal to Lisa, one of my newsletter subscribers. (…)

June 19, 2006

• Budgeting questions & answers (Part One)

  I recently sent out a request to my newsletter subscribers for questions about budgeting. (…)

June 12, 2006

• Interview with Jesse Mecham of YNAB

  I recently had the great opportunity to interview Jesse Mecham, creator of the You Need A Budget (YNAB) personal budgeting system. (…)

May 1, 2006

• Pareto Principle and Personal Finance

  I was reading my newly-acquired favorite personal development blog and happened upon a post that talked about the 80/20 Rule, also known as Pareto's Principle. (…)

April 28, 2006

• Budgeting Tip - I Don't Need It

  I've noticed one thing that has helped me to meet or beat our monthly budget amounts. I say to myself, "I can't afford that now. (…)

April 19, 2006

• Product Review: The B Word budgeting system

  If you've been reading An Uncommon Way to Wealth for any length of time, you know how I've been on the eternal quest for "the perfect budgeting system". (…)

March 22, 2006

• Marriage and Money

  I don't know how it is for any other married couple, even my parents, but my marriage and our money were like gasoline and fire when I first got married (just over two years ago). (…)

March 19, 2006

• Household budget tips

  When my wife and I first put together our household budget, we had a rough time. I was a bit of a budgeting nerd back then, and I went absolutely crazy with the budget categories. (…)

February 1, 2006

• Household Budget

  So, you want to create a household budget? Well, there are several options. You can go the quick-and-dirty way, and make your own free household budget spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel. (…)

January 3, 2006

• Product Review: You Need A Budget (YNAB) Excel Personal Budget Spreadsheet

  I was in a crunch about five months ago. My wife and I had no budgeting system, and it showed. (…)

December 12, 2005

• Product Review: Mvelopes Personal home budgeting system

  I understand that most people who are serious about their personal finances have some sort of budgeting system. (…)

November 16, 2005

• Do you pay yourself back when you overspend?

  I budget, you budget, everyone budgets (not really, but let’s assume that’s true). But what do you do when you can't meet your budget? (…)

October 28, 2005

• More money with a good budgeting system?

  We're nearing the end of our first full month using the You Need A Budget Excel budgeting system, and the results are pretty cool. (…)

October 26, 2005

• Car finance: how to pay cash next time

  My wife and I just finished paying off her car loan, which was financed at an outrageous 14%. Of course, I'm never again going to willingly take out a loan like that again. (…)

October 16, 2005

• The temptation of easy credit

  This is one of those "do as I say, not as I do" type of posts. As I posted earlier, I love having higher lines of credit, especially when I get instant approval for them. (…)

October 13, 2005

• Be humane - kill your debt as quickly and painlessly as possible

  You've probably already heard of the snowball debt reduction approach that has been popularized by Dave Ramsey. It's an excellent way to get out of debt, as long as you follow it. (…)

October 12, 2005

• Thoughts on frugality, diet, health, and wealth

  I've said in the past that being poor is the best diet. You don't eat as much because you can't afford as much. (…)

October 10, 2005

• One debt down, three more to go

  All right!! My wife and I have just finished paying off the loan on her Toyota. I'm so enthusiastic about this because the loan was financed at 14%. (…)

October 8, 2005

• What's your PF level?

  I've slowly become aware of the fact that I am just not at the same level of sophistication as others when it comes to personal finance. I'm strictly a newbie at this point. (…)

September 28, 2005

• YNAB and Yodlee update

   
  Okay, so I did need a budget. Jesse Mecham at You Need A Budget was very helpful in resolving my problem with the YNAB Excel budgeting spreadsheet system. (…)