Full disclosure, I am not 2 days late in my final week post. I decided to draw week four out into this week so that it would cover the last two days of April. It seemed easier than doing a week five post for two days. I will say, as …
As I talked about last week, my follow through seems to be lacking a little bit these days. But we have continued to try to stick it out for our financial challenge month. I will admit, it definitely hasn’t been perfect. I think this week things slid of the rails a bit because …
“Words are meaningless without intent and follow through.” As evident by the fact that my week # 2 post is coming halfway through week # 3, I am having a little bit of follow through trouble these days. It is an issue that I am finding permeates more areas of my …
We have completed the first week of our non-essential spending freeze. If I am being honest, it wasn’t too hard. I think, as with any behavior you are trying to minimize, the perception of deprivation was harder for me than anything else. My husband and I agreed to the freeze and began …
In the spirit of full disclosure, budgeting can be tricky. It is often a word that strikes fear into the hearts of grown adults. People ask what will I have to give up? Or, how boring will my life be when I am budgeting? According to dicitionary.com: Budgetnoun an estimate, often itemized, of expected …
It’s March! Which means one thing…financial aid awards will soon be going out from Colleges and Universities across the country (oh, and I guess spring break is coming up too). Receiving a financial aid award is often confusing to students and parents alike. There are so many different forms financial …
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s that time of year again…the time where people make resolutions about the next year and what they are going to do (or not do) in every aspect of life. And I am sure that some of those resolutions will deal with personal finance. For years, I …
The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money by Chelsea Fagan and designed by Lauren Ver Hage (September, 2017) is a book based on the blog by the same name that has evolved into a great resource for personal finance. You can visit the site here. …
One of the things I am constantly astounded by is the sheer number of personal finance books in the marketplace today. It can be overwhelming to even know where to start as you try to research financial topics and become more informed. So, in keeping the conversation going about money, …
In the spirit of starting honest conversations on financial matters, I am going to take a brief deviation from the list of topics I originally had planned, to discuss an issue of importance that has come into focus for me in the past few months. It is not the most …
