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Saturday, June 8, 2013

30 for 30: Day 6





Here's day 6 of my 30 for 30. I wore this to work, and then to TCBY with my handsome feller. Earlier in the day, he proposed an idea: TCBY and a budget meeting. So, off to fro-yo we went. Then we sat down with a spreadsheet, Quicken, and hammered out some guidelines and savings goals. We've tried to adhere to a budget before, but me being me, I created 8000 categories - EVERYTHING was broken down, and categorized, and really complicated, actually. He's more of a big picture guy and a fan of keeping it simple. So, we compromised and simplified, and have a lot less categories to keep track of. And of course, fro-yo has a place in our budget ;)

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  1. I love the color of the capri - so cute!
    Nick and I budget too...we're Dave Ramsey fans and have finally worked out a groove that doesn't include 8,000 categories (I do that too!) and doesn't take us four hours every time. {And our built-in category is Starbucks :)}

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    1. Aaah yes, we're Dave people, too! We did FPU before we got married and were able to skip a number of steps! Yeah, leave it to me to over-complicate the budget - oy! Don't you worry, Starbucks is in there, too! So glad you guys "live like no one else, so later you can live like no one else!"

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  2. I love that you guys have a budget sheet... I thought my hubby and I were the only ones! We actually have an app on our phones where we enter everything we've bought...
    xo
    styleontheside.com

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    1. I've tried that, but I use Quicken on my Mac and the Quicken app for my iPhone will only work with Windows! Grrr #firstworldproblems ;)

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