Dance has a great post describing a budgeting tool she developed during grad school, but still uses with her Big-Bucks Professor Income. She has links to a template you can check out so you can model something like this to suit your own needs. Very useful, very cool.
Candid Engineer has a recent post discussing how difficult it can be for two people to live on one salary when you don't feel like you're getting a fair slice of the pie.
An English Major's Money is a new-to-me blog (that recently linked to this blog -- thanks!) with all sorts of tips and advice from a recently graduated English major living in New York City.
Arduous Blog, which is a terrific blog primarily about nonconsumerism and environmental activism, had a post a while back about how hard it had been to save money when it was only about saving money. When she shifted her focus to using less, Arduous found herself on top of her finances without feeling deprived. This isn't an academic blog, but I really liked this post.
Know of other interesting blogs/posts about finances? Leave the links in the comments, let me know so I can post them, or become an author so you can write a post yourself.
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I've been doing a spreadsheet like the one Dance showed for the past few years. It is really enlightening to see where your money goes and it can help identify problem areas. I don't remember anymore the book I read this strategy from but the author divided expenses as bills, car (gas, loan, other expenses, 17%), food (15%), education (8%), health care (5%), personal care (6%), entertainment (5%) and other (3%). The percents are of your total monthly income. I created other categories such as dividing my food into grocery and eating out, one for travel, one for gifts, one for home items and my husband and I each get a category for our hobbies.
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