Comments on: Track Your Spending: The First Battle In The War On Debt http://manvsdebt.com/track-your-spending-the-first-battle-in-the-war-on-debt/ Sell your crap. Pay off your debt. Do what you love. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:51:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Gosur http://manvsdebt.com/track-your-spending-the-first-battle-in-the-war-on-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-2066 Brian Gosur Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:43:00 +0000 http://manvsdebt.com/?p=1359#comment-2066 Awesome blog. I especially like the part about keeping track of what you spend. Nobody does that anymore. I was running an analysis for a client of mine, and they had no idea what they spend or how much they have. They just live week to week. We need educational blogs, like yours, to reteach people how money works. Thank you Brian .-= Brian Gosur´s last blog ..<a href="http://thiswaytodebt.com/2009/07/11/loan-modification-strategies-to-help-you-with-debt/" rel="nofollow">Loan Modification Strategies To Help You With Debt</a> =-. Awesome blog. I especially like the part about keeping track of what you spend. Nobody does that anymore.
I was running an analysis for a client of mine, and they had no idea what they spend or how much they have. They just live week to week.
We need educational blogs, like yours, to reteach people how money works.

Thank you

Brian
.-= Brian Gosur´s last blog ..Loan Modification Strategies To Help You With Debt =-.

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]]> By: Reading other PF bloggers » JoeTaxpayer http://manvsdebt.com/track-your-spending-the-first-battle-in-the-war-on-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-1488 Reading other PF bloggers » JoeTaxpayer Sun, 31 May 2009 12:09:49 +0000 http://manvsdebt.com/?p=1359#comment-1488 [...] Track Your Spending: The First Battle In The War On Debt, Adam Baker goes into far more detail than I did in my first Frugal Friday post on why you should [...] [...] Track Your Spending: The First Battle In The War On Debt, Adam Baker goes into far more detail than I did in my first Frugal Friday post on why you should [...]

]]> By: Baker http://manvsdebt.com/track-your-spending-the-first-battle-in-the-war-on-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 Baker Fri, 29 May 2009 19:19:36 +0000 http://manvsdebt.com/?p=1359#comment-1445 You bring up a great point about our trash. We've been doing a little bit better in this area, but still have a long way to go! You bring up a great point about our trash. We’ve been doing a little bit better in this area, but still have a long way to go!

]]> By: Clair Schwan of Frugal Living Freedom http://manvsdebt.com/track-your-spending-the-first-battle-in-the-war-on-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-1439 Clair Schwan of Frugal Living Freedom Fri, 29 May 2009 14:47:17 +0000 http://manvsdebt.com/?p=1359#comment-1439 These are good ideas. Before you can fix a problem, you must be aware of it. Sticking something in your face keeps you aware. You just can't ignore it anymore. Once you're aware, then you can take action to change what you're doing. If we all held onto our trash for weeks on end, we'd see that we have lots of it. We'd be much more aware of how many cans and bottles and boxes of stuff we are consuming and throwing away. The same concept applies to spending money. If we can make ourselves more aware of what we are spending, then we can combat the problem because it's no longer out of sight and off the "radar" screen. Clair These are good ideas. Before you can fix a problem, you must be aware of it. Sticking something in your face keeps you aware. You just can’t ignore it anymore. Once you’re aware, then you can take action to change what you’re doing.

If we all held onto our trash for weeks on end, we’d see that we have lots of it. We’d be much more aware of how many cans and bottles and boxes of stuff we are consuming and throwing away.

The same concept applies to spending money. If we can make ourselves more aware of what we are spending, then we can combat the problem because it’s no longer out of sight and off the “radar” screen.

Clair

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