Comments on: Do You Budget?

By: Gocery Budget Update | A Small Town Kitchen

Gocery Budget Update | A Small Town Kitchen — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:11:09 +0000

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By: Canadian Finance Carnival #79

Canadian Finance Carnival #79 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:23:30 +0000

[...] at Finance Fox presents Do You Budget?, saying “Prior to budgeting I spent money I didn’t have because I didn’t want to [...]

By: Hard to Get Excited About a 0.05% Return

Hard to Get Excited About a 0.05% Return — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:16:52 +0000

[...] asked me in the last two years on how ways to get motivated to save, I’ve always said; “Create a budget and start budgeting. Once you see where your money is going, I guarantee you that it will give you [...]

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:59:37 +0000

Aren’t you lucky….

By: eemusings

eemusings — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:12:50 +0000

Not really, not anymore. I’m at the stage where our money is almost on autopilot! It’s a great feeling. http://eemusings.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/the-long-road-to-budgeting-bliss/

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:55:49 +0000

Hi!
Thanks for stopping by.
Congrats on starting your budget and I’m glad to hear that it’s been beneficial in a very short time.
Give it some more time and you’ll soon realize (and wonder) what the heck were you doing before your budget. Your budget will become your financial life line, and that’s a good thing. Trust me.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:53:28 +0000

Thanks SFC.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:53:10 +0000

Budgeting is essential, and sure makes finances more simplified. I wanted to start budgeting well into my career, and ever since I started doing the monthly budgets my finances took a turn of the better.

By: Tackling Our Debt

Tackling Our Debt — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:22:47 +0000

Just found your post on this week’s carnival list. Great post!

This paragraph describes me perfectly: Before I started budgeting I spent money I didn’t have because I didn’t want to feel deprived of anything. I wanted to experience life to the max. I always found a way to justify the purchase to myself, and bought whatever I wanted in the end. Obviously I didn’t think about the repercussions and after years of being in debt I woke up and realized the mess I had created.

I created our first family budget this past January. It is dire, and definitely needed to be done. I found that we spent because we figured that we would never be short of money. But then we changed careers without changing our spending and the debt just piled up.

Now we are working on changing our mind set and working on our expenses and debt. I finally hear my self saying “do we really need to buy that?”.

By: Young Professional Finances

Young Professional Finances — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:06:21 +0000

I love to budget! I didn’t start until about 2 years after I started working – and I have no idea what happened to the money I made in the first 2 years! Budgeting has definitely helped me save money and get closer to my goals.