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Hey, I got a raise

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CF / June 10th, 2013 / 23 Comments

I had my first ever annual performance review last week. I meet with my manager every two weeks, so I didn’t expect there to be any major issues. I’ve also only been at the job for about 7 months, so there wasn’t too much to talk about…. EXCEPT THE FACT THAT I GOT A RAISE. Woohoo! Monies!Photo Credit: areasuburn via Flickr I received a raise of about 4.5%, which is pretty...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: getting a promotion at work, getting a raise at work, how to budget a raise, how to spend a raise, making a budget, new budget, staying on budget

Using Planwise to create a money plan

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CF / October 29th, 2012 / 17 Comments

Have you heard of Planwise yet? They’re an up and coming San Francisco based technology company that has created a pretty slick web app to help consumers plan out their finances. The basic idea is that you give the app your financial stats – income, expenses, debts and so on – and then add “Plans” on top off your baseline. Plans could be things like taking out a...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: budgeting, making a budget, new budget, new job, Planwise, saving money, spending money, staying on budget, staying out of debt