Spending & Saving
With the potential exception of personal care products, food budgets are where most good financial intentions go to die. I have a few theories about why this is: Like money, our relationship with food is emotional. We eat when we’re hungry, bored, tired, cranky, happy, sad – it’s as much an activity as a means of […]
2025 Update: In 2022, we invited a pro-leasing guest on the show to discuss how, when, and why leasing a vehicle might make sense. Enjoy! Because I spent the morning getting my car appraised at CarMax like the good money blogger I am, it felt like the perfect day to sit down and write this […]
When I first moved to Dallas, I didn’t rent an apartment. I lived with my friend Kylie’s family. Long-time Dallas natives, they planted roots in one of the nicest, most coveted neighborhoods in Dallas in the mid-1980s – long before the neighborhood had the esteem (and price tag) it has today. Living in that house was […]
As a former Hot Girl©, I am all too familiar with the financial trials and tribulations of attempting to maintain some semblance of an acceptable female appearance. In fact, I wrote about my devolution from a near-$400/month hot girl budget to effectively $0 here. I remember the most common experience all too well, and it […]