One Caveman’s Financial Journey

After our Christmas budgets were tightened by the unfortunate timing of my truck’s radiator failure (to the tune of $400), I figured we would probably have a few good months before something new popped up again.
NOPE!
Last night as my wife was trying to prepare dinner for our daughter, she mentioned to me that she thought [...]

*** Note: The spreadsheet is complete and uploaded. You can find out more in the post about it.
Sorry about the delay in releasing the Expense Tracking Spreadsheet. In the process of preparing a sample spreadsheet, I realized I should probably write a tutorial of how to actually use it. It uses pivot [...]

This month we began closely tracking all of our expenses for the first time. We knew that we would be in for a few surprises, but if we were going to reign in our expenses we had to be willing to embarrass ourselves to find the truth.
We have always used Quicken to track our [...]