Comments on: Weekly Budget – Week 1 (May 26 – June 1) http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:23:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Weekly Budget Contest | One Million and Beyond http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-44981 Weekly Budget Contest | One Million and Beyond Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:51:24 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/#comment-44981 [...] This blog has been in existence for a while and I have never run a contest in all of that time. I was waiting for there to be a significant and compelling reason for me to run one and I now have one. In last weeks budget post I said that there would be a contest coming and this is that announcement, naturally this announcement has something to do with my weekly budget. [...] [...] This blog has been in existence for a while and I have never run a contest in all of that time. I was waiting for there to be a significant and compelling reason for me to run one and I now have one. In last weeks budget post I said that there would be a contest coming and this is that announcement, naturally this announcement has something to do with my weekly budget. [...]

]]> By: Matt http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-44647 Matt Mon, 26 May 2008 12:06:07 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/#comment-44647 Thanks for the suggestions Zeromoney. The biggest problem I have with using cash is I tend to spend it and not know where it went. By using my debit card I always get a receipt which helps me track all of my spending. Though with that said I have gotten a lot better at knowing where all my money goes. Thanks for the suggestions Zeromoney. The biggest problem I have with using cash is I tend to spend it and not know where it went. By using my debit card I always get a receipt which helps me track all of my spending. Though with that said I have gotten a lot better at knowing where all my money goes.

]]> By: zeromoney http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-44611 zeromoney Sun, 25 May 2008 19:54:48 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2008/05/25/weekly-budget-week-1/#comment-44611 I started a new budget, pretty similar to yours, and it sounds like around the same amount of yours. I'm actually only on week 2 of it, but it seems to do the trick better than anything else I've done so far. On Payday, take out your money for the week in cash, and only use that, put aside the money for next week as well, and take that out on the halfway date (mines on friday), and only use cash as well. I'm way more hesitant to spend cash than I was to just swipe the card and not think about it. I think I went from spending at least 300 a week, down to about 100 without any real problems. I started a new budget, pretty similar to yours, and it sounds like around the same amount of yours. I’m actually only on week 2 of it, but it seems to do the trick better than anything else I’ve done so far. On Payday, take out your money for the week in cash, and only use that, put aside the money for next week as well, and take that out on the halfway date (mines on friday), and only use cash as well.

I’m way more hesitant to spend cash than I was to just swipe the card and not think about it. I think I went from spending at least 300 a week, down to about 100 without any real problems.

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