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House-hunting in any US city will cause one simple question to bulldoze all the others: How can so many people afford to buy these houses? If you typically feel pretty good about your financial progress and you’d like to not feel good about it, there’s no activity I recommend more. Last weekend, my husband and […]
The other day, a friend asked me what I thought of the “money manifestation” courses she keeps seeing online. Maybe you’ve seen their ads, too: Relatable-feeling, straight-to-camera videos featuring people who promise to rid you of your “money blocks,” using scientific-sounding language and vague assurances about forthcoming abundance. This type of material usually triggers my […]
The other morning, I woke up with a strange impulse: I wanted to go to the mall. Work had been particularly intense for a couple of weeks, so wandering around a giant commercial space that smells like someone spritzed an Auntie Anne’s pretzel with Chanel No. 5 sounded like irresistible frivolity. This happens every few […]
Last December, I took three of my best friends on a trip to Tulum, Mexico. It was the first time I had ever done something so grand, and a few days ago, I woke up thinking again of Tulum. I navigated to our choice hotel’s site to check booking availability, making a mental note of […]
I’ve been creating content about money, the economy, and the state of work on and off for five years, and I’ve sensed a definitive shift in sentiment over the last 18 months. I see it most in the changing responses to Money with Katie video content online; purely tactical pieces that used to elicit little […]
In January 2021, search volume for the term “should I invest in Bitcoin” hit its highest peak, and remained a popular search term through early summer. Bitcoin—and cryptocurrency more generally—was everywhere you looked, infiltrating even the most staid of personal finance domains online (yours truly’s included, as I wrote my first and only cryptocurrency explainer […]
This week’s episode of The Money with Katie Show covers the expensive gauntlet of financial and physical labor required to transition loved ones into the “final phase” of their lives: potentially decades of retirement and eventually, end-of-life care. This transition from providing care to potentially needing it marks a sort of full-circle moment in the […]
As we near the end of March, I know what you’re thinking: Q1 is almost over! (No? Just me?) This year I decided to try something a little different when thinking about my 2023 ambitions. And while I’ve usually long defected from my best Jan. 1 intentions by the time we’re pulling up on the […]
The glorious TikTok algorithm served me a video the other day. It was from a sex therapist who opened with, “Most couples who come to me say, ‘Our marriage is perfect, except for our sex life!,’ and it’s almost never true.” She goes on to explain how—much of the time—when a couple believes they’re no […]
As I’ve shared before on The Money with Katie Show and likewise on this very blog, I’ve had a fairly fraught relationship with materialism. I’ve gone through phases when I would’ve branded myself with the Chanel logo if given the materials and opportunity to do so, and I’ve also gone through stages when I embraced […]
Let me ask you a question: Do you consider yourself wealthy? Whether you do or you don’t, what’s your justification for your answer? If I had to guess, it has something to do with comparison to people in a similar situation to you, as opposed to any hard-and-fast numbers: If you look around at your […]