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OODA Spotlight, Questions and Answers
Today my guest for the Q&A exchange is Esavings Blog. Esavings has a lot of great links to various types of savings you can find online for the drugstore, grocery store and restaurants. After you read her answers here, go over to her site and read my answers. And while you're at there, take a look around and subscribe to the blog! Esavings, my first question is do you have a piggy bank? What do you use to collect your… Read the rest

Those Darned Receipts

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One of my readers, Cynthia From Debt Marathon commented on last Monday in response to my post I'm Drowning in Receipts “…your stack of receipts was outrageous to me!” I agree wholeheartedly!!! Then I thought it might be entertaining to share some stats on those receipts with y'all. This is counting all the receipts I entered into Quicken and Quickbooks, money spent by myself, Mr. A and AJ.  This also includes food shopping that AJ did for his job (party… Read the rest

December 2009 Monthly Report

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I am so late getting my December monthly report done, but here it is, finally! If I'm lucky, I'll have the January report next week sometime. In the black by $185.50. Gas was very low this month, not really sure why.  It makes me a little nervous because all gasoline is charged to debit cards, and I download all the transactions from the bank so how could some be missing? There is no way, so we must have used quite… Read the rest

Why I Use Quicken Rather Than Excel to Track Our Expenses

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I love Excel, it is one of my favorite programs. However, when it comes to keeping track of what is coming in and going out, Quicken wins hands down. Easy Reports – I use categories in Quicken and doing so allows me to retrieve reports of all kinds, easily.  Quicken can look at the big picture easily. Add Accounts – It's easy to add a new bank account or savings account. Export to Excel – I do still use Excel… Read the rest