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Why do you need a personal finance budget?

June 19th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

This is the first release of one of our content sections which can be found in ‘Budgeting’. As we noted in the release of Twenty Something Sense 2.0, we will continue to release content we feel can be referenced over time in the sections in the top navigation.

This section will start by telling you why you need a personal budget and the move into how to create a budget. These sections will cover the basics and we will next explore creating your first budget (via spreadhseet), and using tools such as Quicken and Mint.com to manage your budget…

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How to save $1000 in 30 days

June 17th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

This is not a gimmick, I promise. In fact the title is only deceiving in that it is most likely understating your savings potential. Author of “I Will Teach You To Be Rich,” Ramit Sethi, has come up with an outstanding program geared to save you real dollars not petty nickles and dimes.

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Good Pig vs. Bad Pig

May 6th, 2009 by Colin Gillens   1 Comment »

I imagine that the responsible parental influences you’ve had over the course of your lives so far have either personally instilled in or otherwise impressed upon you the importance of personal savings. Financial prudence and responsibility have long been considered virtuous qualities to incorporate into the lives of young people as they come into their own.

Good Pig:

The practice of saving and the very idea of personal wealth-management for many are first exercised with the piggy-bank. This symbol occupies such a…

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How much money do you make a year to do what you want with?

March 28th, 2009 by Brad Harbach   waiting for comments...

How much do you make a year? For 91.9% of us a number immediately flashes into our heads when asked that question. Try this one. How much money do I have for discretionary spending this year? The majority of people can not answer this. This is troubling to me. If you don’t know how much money you have this year to spend on discretionary items such as bars, travel, dinners, electronics, clothing, etc… then how do you know what you can and…

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Fresh and Minty

March 16th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   3 Comments »

Today’s blog comes from a class-mate I met while at Virginia Tech. I met Jonathan through several organizations on campus where he generally played some type of leadership role. On top of it all he managed to beat me out (crush me) for Virginia Tech’s homecoming king in 2003/4, but we won’t hold that against him. Today Jonathan talks to us about budgeting and a couple of the great sites out there to help you which you may remember from…

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