Personal finance

Since we moved to California I’ve pitched in to take my turn at steering the family finances.  I’ve setup Quicken, combined our money, put us on a strict budget and examined all our retirement finances.  One of the things I became obsessed with is our retirement funds.  One thing I focused on was a Simple…

Sarah and I use Quicken to manage an annual household budget.  Everything goes in there.  Monthly set-asides for the property tax bills, the home insurance, we’ve got it all covered.  It should come as no surprise when we began this process that we were living beyond our means. As we began to lockdown our personal…