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Monthly Budget – July (2008)

The Family Budget
Although this post is extremely late, I have finally finished calculating the results of our July (2008) monthly budget. We came in under budget once again, but are inching closer to the break-even point, which I am starting to become concerned about. Unfortunately, we are having an issue controlling our Grocery [...]

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Revisiting house guests and added expenses

Well our house guests (the in-laws) who visited us for two weeks are now gone back home. It was a nice visit and our family budget withstood the added expenses that I posted in a previous article found here – Preparing for House Guests and added Expenses. Today, I would like to revisit [...]

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New ideas for reducing our monthly food budget

Each and every day I look for areas to reduce our expenses from our monthly budget to allow more money to flow into the purchase of assets. The purchase of more and more assets will help increase our monthly passive income and allow my family to become financially independent. In the past few [...]

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May 2008 – Family Budget Review

The Family Budget
May 2008 has come to a close and the family budget has survived!!! This is the first “official” month that we have used the family budget that I previously posted. We spent $142.37 less than budgeted which I thought was a good start to the new budget. There were several [...]

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