>>>>>>>Can anybody recommend any personal budgeting software? We have been using an Excel spreadsheet for several years, but it's just not working anymore.
>>>>>>OpenOffice
>>>>>>http://www.openoffice.org/
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>>>>>What about it? Is there a budget module? I had a pretty decent spreadsheet set up in Excel to do this, but the wife just started getting paid every two weeks while get paid on the 1st and 15th, and it was hard to keep those in sync.
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>>>>You just pretend she's still paid twice a month, and then two months in a year she gets an extra check - nice surprise. Budget (budge it?) as if these two checks don't exist.
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>>>That's what I used to do when I got paid twice a week. However, that just doesn't seem to work very well with mine. I know that on the first, I can pay all of my bill scheduled for the first half of the month, but I can't assume that with her's.
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>>Twice a week? Are you hiring?
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>Actually, now that I think about it, I got paid every Friday. That rocked big time. I had a budget like Dragan mentioned where every 3-4 months or so, I would get an extra paycheck every month. However, I like my overall significantly higher salary a lot better... ;-)

How can that be? -- you're getting paid more often!