The Richwood Report

There's still time to get organized in your personal spending for 2006. Fearless Money has a good post on an unexpected benefit of planned spending. A sample:

When I started formal budgeting & tracking of my finances last June, I never considered that it would make me feel less guilty about spending money. Somehow, ensuring every dollar has a purpose, and tracking how they were actually spent calms me and makes me feel better about spending in general.

The linked article on The Power of Planned Purchasing is worth reading also.