Is Your New Business Hiding Inside You?

By 2 Cents on May 10th, 2010 | Category: Career | 2 comments

Allison W. writes for The Digerati Life, a site that shares various financial articles about stock investing, saving and debt management. Check out the site’s reviews on the best high yield savings accounts and the top online brokers available to consumers.

If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it.

~ Trooper (Canadian rock band, from the song Raise a Little Hell)

Let me share something with you. I always wanted to be a writer. When I was at school and the teacher asked me what I wanted to do, I said something along the lines of “shop manager”. But personally I couldn’t think of anything worse for a creative soul but I was afraid they’d laugh at me if I said I wanted to be a writer.

Fast forward around twenty five years though, [...]

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How to Budget Irregular Income

By 2 Cents on May 4th, 2010 | Category: Budgets | 5 comments

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a  lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

~ Olliver Wendell Holmes

Update: Thanks to My Dollar Plan for including this article in the Carnival of Personal Finance #256 : Market Crash Edition.

If your income is commission-based or you are self-employed, you may find budgeting to be more of a challenge. We have lived on various types of irregular income for the past 10 years or so. It’s tempting to avoid budgeting altogether since you really don’t know what your income might be from one month or year [...]

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