Creating a Budget

In these crazy financial times, we’ve been reviewing our spending and trying to find good techniques to manage everything.  One topic of interest is budgeting.  There are a number of ways to set a budget of course.  Everyone needs to find a method that works for them.

Here are a few articles discussing budgets that I found useful:

How To Create A Zero-Based Budget

How To Build Your First Budget

The Ten-Minute Budget

The Ten-Minute Budget advocates (and supplies) a spreadsheet to capture current spending.  You can also use services like Mint.com to do the same with less manual work.

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