Christmas 2025
I am posting this on Christmas, and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Christmas is often associated with gifts, and I hope that you are benefiting from the gift.
The Richest Man in Babylon – Save at least 10%
How can you implement the lessons from The Richest Man in Babylon in hledger? Last week in this blog I said that there were few. Of course, few is.
The Richest Man in Babylon and hledger
One classic book in the field of personal finance is The Richest Man in Babylon. It has been in print for decades as it continues to prove a popular.
Still haven’t closed out 2024
Some months ago I thought that I would have closed out 2024 by now. However, I keep seeing advantages to delaying my closing out of the prior year. For.
Thanksgiving greetings
Thanksgiving greetings! Speaking of giving thanks, it’s healthy to think about the things that we are thankful for. They can be material things such as food and shelter. They.
Tags for Travel Take Two
It was time to use my new system for adding tags to travel-related transactions. That is, rather than adding the tags to each transaction as I enter it, I.
Powerful hledger
The power from hledger comes from habitually using it. However, how does someone get started with hledger in such a way that is likely to develop into a habit?.
Count calories?
You can track many things in hledger besides time and money. Basically, if you can count it, you can probably track it in hledger or similar accounting program. It.
Getting rid of wealth
My wife and I sometimes practice transfers of wealth. One way that consistently works well to do this is to take a car in for repair. Recently, while at.
More on limits
Last week I wrote about limits. In short: One dollar is just one dollar. One hour is just one hour. However, the opposite is also true, in the sense.