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Moola clams greenbacks Benjamins bills dough loot bacon stash bank smackaroos Hamiltons MONEYLet’s start talking about finances! No matter what you call it, there often seems to be not enough of it. And there seems to be a stigma that surrounds all aspects of it. In my family growing up, it was never spoken of except in terms of scarcity. You couldn’t have things because there wasn’t enough money and…
Today is my only day off this week, so I’m running errands. I’m listening to the second part of the podcast that I referenced in the previous “Happiest” post… So one of the things that she was also posing the question of is ‘how do you want to be remembered when you pass away? What do you want your obituary to say?’ Obviously she was not getting at just the essential…
Secret obsession I would venture to guess that most people have a secret (or perhaps not so secret) obsession with something that their friends perhaps don’t get. Perhaps you like to read all the juicy rag magazines, secretly wish you were a Kardashian, have a body full of tats underneath your clothes or dream you did, or spend $20 on scratchers every payday hoping that that will be the last…
It’s no secret that I work really hard to get my bills paid as frugally as possible and to provide what my family needs while still having fun money and money set aside for emergencies and investing. That being said, it’s still often difficult to use the money that I set aside as fun money instead of using that money to invest in my family‘s future. All this to say, I…
(In the voice of Julie Andrews) Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with ‘A B C’, when you sing you begin with ‘do re mi’… so it’s fair to say that in that same mindset, when you begin to get your finances together TRACKING is a very good place to start. How can you budget or get a handle…
AhhhhhWelcome 2021! Just the fact that you aren’t called 2020 makes you already better! All jokes aside, New Year’s always kind of brings a sense of hope to me. Yes, there are unknowns like there are every day of the week, but there’s the promise that we made it through another year, even a crappy year like 2020! And while you would probably think that I wanna focus on the…
