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• 02.11.08
  Calculating a Paycheck for a New Pay Schedule Budgets | (0)

  A little while ago I wrote a post about how I almost lost control of my bowels when I got my first paycheck on a new pay schedule. It was about a $100 less than I had expected and it was going to destroy our financial plans for the year. Fortunately, I didn't really make a mistake - it was just an administrative solution to help my company's employees transition better to the new pay schedule that I had forgotten about. Let's rehash the lessons I learned after getting my last paycheck: Lesson learned: pay attention to ...
• 02.01.08
  January Budget: How Did We Do? Budgets | (0)

  Pretty good, given our circumstances. Here are the numbers: As you can see, we were significantly over budget in our Gas (82%) and Misc (73%) line items, but generally within budget in every other category. Mad props need to go out to my wife who did a stellar job in getting two grown adults through an entire month on an average of $2.31 per day per person. That's about $0.77 cents per meal *insert googly eyes*. Can she get a what-what? Most of the reason for us ending over budget this month was due to the ...
• 01.17.08
  Crappin’ My Pants Budgets | (0)

  image: Just Taken Pics' Today was my first payday since my employer decided to switch from a semi-monthly pay schedule to a bi-weekly one. Being the type of person who wants to figure out new things to anticipate the effect of the change, I built a splediforific spreadsheet that I thought did a reasonable job projecting just how much each paycheck would net me and what the monthly average would be. I was so certain about it, I even used this number in projecting our 2008 expectations and goals. My spreadsheet told me, and it was so. When I ...
• 01.15.08
  Mid January Budget Update: Planes, Trains, and Breakdowns Budgets | (1)

  Since January is the first real month that our budget is being put to the test since we created it in November I decided it might be a good idea to see just how well we are doing with it at the half way point of the month. Here are the raw numbers: We haven't had to spend anything for household items or toiletries this month but we normally incur costs like those on an irregular basis (i.e. when our stocks of stuff run out and we have decided that our hands just don't do the job like we'd like). ...

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