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Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:57:47 +0000

[...] one tending bar and one doing freelance visual effects while The Wife has worked diligently turning last year’s October debacle into a pillar of [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:27:17 +0000

October is one of our most hated months too! Hubby’s b-day falls there which means both of our car tags need to be purchased, on top of a b-day present/cake for him. Halloween, of course means $$ for costumes. We’re always starting to buy Christmas presents too…and usually play catch up from our summer vacation that followed us home because we went into debt for it. DUMB! Anyhow, this October was surprisingly pleasant with a plan and a budget.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:09:46 +0000

@ pafaff – October sinking fund is a great idea!
@ the Dad – October is our October, too. We crushed August & September, then October crushed us. And we only had one party!

By: pafaff

pafaff — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:48:09 +0000

Sounds like you need an October sinking fund.

Happy, Happy October to everyone!!!

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:08:38 +0000

Ya, have you seen my October progress? LOL. I’m right there with ya! Oct – Dec are hard budgeting months. But we didn’t hit a negative. So we are still on our snowball schedule.

I think if we plan for the roller coaster months then we can continue to do great on our debt. Christmas – gonna buy one thing a week. We’re not going crazy this year. Totally no new debt for the holiday season. What joy is that?

Glad to hear you had some great celebrations in October.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:40:20 +0000

Oy! October was awful for me. Wiped out my very tiny BEF and then some. I just couldn’t get it under control even though I’ve been budgeting for 1.5 years now. November is going to be very lean as a result.

By: Music Man

Music Man — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:25 +0000

I haven’t been doing this long enough to have a budget crusher but I can totally see it happening around April (which is when most of my in-laws birthdays are celebrated. Fortunately, we are putting money away in our gifts fund every month so that should hlep to deefray the cost. Keep at it guys because you are my inspiration!!

By: jpkittie

jpkittie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:31:36 +0000

with you there – dd was born in October – happy halloween! it is almost over

By: Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:02:43 +0000

Thank everyone has a bad month or two. Most is probably when property taxes are due. For my parents there bad months are two December and January. In December the wonderful thing called Christmas and property taxes hits every year. Its even more wonderful this year as the state of Georgia almost totally eliminated the homestead exception. It could be worse the county above us not redone there tax books since 2001 due to the idiots running there tax department and some had there taxes double or triple or worse.

January is a bad month as my parents keep being conned into upgrading there wonderful timeshare this year they only got one of them as they upgraded two of them into one week.

My bad month would have to be the month I pay my taxes down side being self employed hopefully I put enough aside and paid enough estimated taxes this year to make it more fun this last year. How I handled it this year is I put aside same amount I paid in estimated taxes hoping that would cover me this year and little more. Hopefully I over did it this year.

By: KSR

KSR — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:03:45 +0000

We love your posts. they keep us going. and we really sucked at Oct too. we are so excited to do our Nov budget tomorrow and just knowing others are out there doing the same is comforting. Cheers to new month…no tricks involved!
Peace
K