Budgeting archive

I’ve been up and down with my meal plans lately, trying to find a system that works for me. The most productive way I have…

In my moan about selling on eBay I touched upon something important I’ve discovered about budgeting: the time spent planning and plotting a budget is…

One of the ways I was hoping that we would pay off our mortgage (let’s pretend I’ve updated that page recently) was to sell the…

There’s been a big gap between meal plan posts because discovering Oliver has issues with dairy left me feeling a bit lost and “what do…

I was thinking the other morning (in the shower, again) about how we save money in so many ways every day… stuff that Karl &…

Before I even look at the figures, I’m feeling a little more confident about this month. There were a few ‘cheats’ but I’ve mostly stuck…

Apologies for another boring meal plan entry. Drowning in work and house chores and kids and general ARGH at the moment. As expected, I’m finding…

We had some sunshine here in jemjabella-land today, so despite the chill in the air, everyone was wrapped up warm and shoved into the garden…

I figured that if we’re going to be serious about this mortgage free in 5 years thing, I should be looking at where our money…

Sorry about the cheaty back-dating of this one ;) I’ve got several posts in the works re: my new goal to pay off the mortgage…

One of the things I see other people fall into the trap of too often with this budgeting lark (no, not me, far too smart..…

Last meal plan post of January, huzzah (and only slightly late). Not as tight on the veg this week because I wanted to use up…