One very common method of budgeting is the cash envelope method, where you take the money you have to spend on various categories (especially the categories where you tend to overspend, like groceries, dining out, and entertainment), put it into an envelope, and only use that envelope's worth of money for that category. It's an easy way to prevent overspending - you can't spend what you don't have.But spending cash all the time means that … [Read more...]
Must. Get. Organized.
Memorial Day Weekend. That means summer is officially here. This is awesome because it means less laundry.What? Well, see, I can wear jeans to work during the summer, and jeans just don't get dirty like my black dress pants. Therefore, less laundry.It also means that I have officially missed spring cleaning. So that's what I've been working on the past few days. My house is a disaster! It's not dirty, so to speak, but it's … [Read more...]
Tricks to a Good Password
How many times a day do you enter a password or a PIN? It adds up, doesn't it? In the first few minutes of my work day, I have typically logged into my work account, my personal e-mail, Twitter, and our HR page. That's four different passwords. Then if I want to blog or check my bank balance, those are two more passwords. Then there's my work voicemail and my personal voicemail. Eight passwords. And those are just basic everyday … [Read more...]
Budgeting My Time
Usually, I'm pretty good at budgeting my time, but as of late, I've been feeling pretty overwhelmed. Blog entries are getting written late and I still have to finish my Year in Review posts. I can't forget about the last half of 2009. There were some pretty good days in there!I know that I'm not alone in this. I think that a lot of people find themselves overwhelmed with responsibilities and commitments and struggle to make everything … [Read more...]
GTD? Another system?
Over the past week, I've been playing with the idea of trying out GTD again - or at least a modified version of GTD. But the more I read about it, the more I really don't know that it's for me. I can't see myself successfully using a tickler file, to be honest.I suppose I do use a modified version of a tickler file. I have a to-do spreadsheet file on my computer with a tab for every day in the month and a tab for each month of the year. … [Read more...]