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Do You Ever Just Give In and Spend?

February 27th, 2012 | 30 Comments

Do You Ever Just Give In and Spend?

I’ve written several times about our targeted short-term savings accounts.  For the most part these work very well for us in saving for our anticipated expenses.  But sometimes, the system backfires – specifically, when we need (?) something that we haven’t saved for, or haven’t saved enough for.  Dividing up our cash among all these accounts means we have to do some psychological tricks to get the money from elsewhere.   We’ve had two instances of this … Read entire article »

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