Comments on: what’s the trend? Understanding your finances with graphs

By: preparing the household budget for 2011 | frugalandthriving.com.au

preparing the household budget for 2011 | frugalandthriving.com.au — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:06:51 +0000

[...] Charting trends [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:56:43 +0000

@Maureen, that’s the great thing about excel – easy to make lots of graphs – believe me I have many many for our spending, but we are starting to whittle our bad habits down

@Charmaine, I can be a little OCD when it comes to our budget, to the point where my DH complains that it is the only thing I talk about. I do write about budgeting though, so I think that’s a little excuse for thinking about it all the time. When I look over our budget, I’m constantly surprised how much we spend on certain things. We are reducing our takeaway, but coffees out seems to be on the rise…

By: the backup plan | frugalandthriving.com.au

the backup plan | frugalandthriving.com.au — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:03:22 +0000

[...] last post showed the purge and splurge cycle that can often be the result of trying to reduce your expenses [...]

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:38:24 +0000

My husband and I have fallen off the wagon…big time! For about five months we entered all our expenses meticulously, though I think what we failed to do was routinely evaluate, like you do. For some reason this petered off and we seem to be on a spending free fall. I remember that at the time we were recording our expenses we were surprised to discover just how much we spent on takeaway & coffees. I also tend to go a little crazy on sewing and crafting materials. I am now motivated to get my act together and retrieve that ol’ excel spreadsheet.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:32:32 +0000

I think I would need a large number of different graphs to track all my overspending habits, but I love the graphs you can see at a glance where you went wrong.