Back to Basics: Plan, plan, plan

At the beginning of this series, I mentioned that part of the reason for the series was to remind myself of the basics of wise personal finance. The risk in doing that was that I would run across one (or more) of the basics that I was utterly incompetent in, and would need to write a post on it anyway. Well, this is one of those basics that I’m really not qualified to write about. I’m very poor at planning the financial life for me and my family. I still use The Force for most of our spendi