Comments on: Improving Your Relationship With Money http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/improving-your-relationship-with-money/ Because wealth is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Uncle Foobar http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/improving-your-relationship-with-money/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Uncle Foobar Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:16:47 +0000 http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/improving-your-relationship-with-money/#comment-74 You know, i intimately know my money: i use Quicken, keep track of laundy quarters, pocket change and all my bills and such, and can run reports on how much broccoli i've eaten in the last three years. (i categorize all groceries once a month) [i started this to try to "diet by dollars"/track junk food then started doing all grocery purchases). While i know my net worth to as close as anyone could know it, i donno. I can't tell that i'm making better decisions because i'm a Quicken-head. I just feel like a book keeper. With too many accounts. I'm an avid reader of the Carnival and found that opening an high interest savings account online has been my best decision. Here's the thing about the future: it is completely unknown. You can plan for the knowns (an SuseOrmanism) but life is pretty random. I don't own a house or anything, and maybe think that i could go through this if the mortgage process weren't so complex. Foob You know, i intimately know my money: i use Quicken, keep track of laundy quarters, pocket change and all my bills and such, and can run reports on how much broccoli i’ve eaten in the last three years. (i categorize all groceries once a month) [i started this to try to “diet by dollars”/track junk food then started doing all grocery purchases).

While i know my net worth to as close as anyone could know it, i donno. I can’t tell that i’m making better decisions because i’m a Quicken-head. I just feel like a book keeper. With too many accounts.

I’m an avid reader of the Carnival and found that opening an high interest savings account online has been my best decision.

Here’s the thing about the future: it is completely unknown. You can plan for the knowns (an SuseOrmanism) but life is pretty random. I don’t own a house or anything, and maybe think that i could go through this if the mortgage process weren’t so complex.

Foob

]]> By: The Carnival of Personal Finance ‘68 Hits the Oregon Trail | Punny Money http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/improving-your-relationship-with-money/comment-page-1/#comment-67 The Carnival of Personal Finance ‘68 Hits the Oregon Trail | Punny Money Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:14:24 +0000 http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/improving-your-relationship-with-money/#comment-67 [...] Thanks in part to our impending financial crisis, Emma seems to be building a better relationship with money. She’s learning more about our money and how to make wise financial decisions, and she’s starting to realize that personal integrity is more important than buying stuff. She still has some trouble overcoming some of the myths of saving money, but I think we can work on that. [...] [...] Thanks in part to our impending financial crisis, Emma seems to be building a better relationship with money. She’s learning more about our money and how to make wise financial decisions, and she’s starting to realize that personal integrity is more important than buying stuff. She still has some trouble overcoming some of the myths of saving money, but I think we can work on that. [...]

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