I paid my credit card in full…twice
Right, people, of the blogosphere! I am back from Atlanta; landed this morning and feeling really shattered. Fear that I won’t sleep on the plane and determination to do so ended in me having a beer at the Airport and some wine on the flight – and this is far too much for me; I am a very cheap drunk. This coupled with not enough sleep meant that I got home feeling really groggy this morning.
All this work on getting my priorities right paid off and I took a shower and went to bed. Tiredness, however, could not keep me from our account and my budgeting for long – early afternoon I logged in. And…. Continue reading
And was it worth it?
Right, my friends, it is Friday and we are back in the UK; which means that it is the day of reckoning. Last year I was very strict while away and kept really close eye on our spending. This year, for variety of reasons, this slipped a bit. As I live by my blog knowing my numbers – and not just suspecting what these may be and worrying about it – is important to me. Continue reading
Phew! I have a bank account…in Bulgaria
Walking the streets of large cities in any country is like meeting a person – the outside of what you see is a pretty good measure of what you may find inside. This old rule, a modification of ‘as above so below’, generally works although there can be exceptions. When you walk down the streets of a city they may be lined with shops, with art galleries with eating places. Sometimes, the streets of large cities are lined with banks – banks shout aspirations. Continue reading
The Money Principle Budgeting Tool: let’s play
I am sitting in bed with my leg up and it is 35C in Sofia. I am hot, bothered and not very patient – with myself and with the world. Under this circumstance what better way to pass time than to finish something I have been promising for some time now and have been working on for even longer.
In a previous post I argued that whilst budgets don’t do much for me (in fact budgets get me seriously vexed) I am a firm believer in budgeting. I also discussed three kinds of expenditure: constant, changeable and variable. Continue reading
