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Budgeting for 2010

Unrelated to anything I wanted to write about today, how are you referring to the year 2010? It’s been a bit of a debate in our office lately. We don’t have to have an official way to say it, but it’s interesting to see all the variety. This year, 2009, is “oh-nine.” [...]

Life is busy.

A common refrain among my friends is “I don’t know how you manage to do everything you do.”  Apparently, my life appears busy to a lot of people.  From my point of view, I’m a pretty lazy person. 

Where does my time go?  Well, I work, obviously.  I also run and am often training for a [...]

A Look at the USDA Food Plan

A few weeks ago, I started looking at the USDA Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home at Four Levels.  Though I do have a roommate, it’s rare that we eat together and the only thing we really share is coffee, so I’ve been looking at the plan for the single female, 19-50 years.  I [...]

Has the economy changed your spending habits?

Has the state of the economy changed how you spend?  I’m serious.  I’ve been reading personal finance and frugality blogs for nearly two years, and there are a lot of blogs out there on these subjects that have been around for years before that.  What that tells me is that there are a lot of [...]

Budget Justifications

We’re just about at mid-year in our fiscal year at work, which means it’s time for the mid-year budget review.  As a part of this review, we are looking to see where we have under or overestimated our yearly department budget, and if we need to request new funds, we are required to put together [...]