Spending & Saving
August 2020 Funnily enough, getting my identity stolen in 2019 was one of the major breaking points for my #InternetPresence as someone who talked about finances. I’ll never forget it. It was April 1 (the worst April Fool’s Joke in history) and I was speeding to a 5:15 p.m. Yoga Sculpt class at the Henderson […]
Leveraging travel rewards as a couple is arguably the world’s most fantastic money-saving loophole. I’ve isolated two things that lead Tom and I to bicker: When we don’t have a TV series to watch together. Without Netflix, our relationship hits the skids. When we stay home for too long. That second one is mostly because […]
Welcome to adulthood! You’ve made it. Your company-issued minivan and mortgage are in the mail; BYO-orthopedic shoes. In speaking with hundreds of women about their personal finances, a few themes emerge as big areas of opportunities. I’ve talked about some of them in the past: Paying off debt the wrong way – i.e., paying down high-balance […]
September 2020 $2,718. That’s how much my life costs every month. In the last six months of 2020, I’ve been within a few percentage points of this number, dipping as low as only spending 82.2% of that total and as much as 102.65% of it. Knowing how much your life costs is step #1 of […]