I think one of the most frustrating realities of personal finance is that it is totally possible to make mistakes when you are young that have a huge impact on your life and finances for many years to come. Take student loans, for example. They don’t sound particularly scary. When you are in school you […]
READ MORE >>Changing Our Attitude on Debt
The hubs and I graduated from school at around the same time, in 2006. We’d been broke as a joke for years in school, like most people. I recall a conversation we had shortly after getting our first paychecks. We were in awe of how much money we were making (which wasn’t a lot- especially […]
READ MORE >>Mortgage debt: good, bad, or ugly?
On any given day when we peruse the blogosphere, we can read articles about nearly any aspect of personal finance: spending, saving, investing, retirement, and the list goes on and on. Many of us are on what I like to call the Debt Annihilation Track- out to kill debt of any kind at any cost. […]
READ MORE >>How to Live With Past Money Mistakes in a Healthy Way
As we all know, there are a lot of folks out there who are blogging about their financial journey in life, and for many of us it has not been a smooth road. One thing I have noticed is that, especially among those whose major financial focus is paying off old debts, this can really […]
READ MORE >>Learning from Money Mistakes #1: Living too high on student loans
I’ve decided to start a series that I will call Learning from Money Mistakes. The inspiration for this series is simple: I’ve certainly made my share of money mistakes and I suspect others have as well. Mistakes become valuable lessons when we learn from them, right? So let the learning begin! Probably one of my […]
READ MORE >>New personal finance kid on the block
Hello everyone! This is my inaugural blog post. I am brand new to blogging and website design, so I am very much learning as I go here! I am a thirty-something married gal who is passionate about personal finance. Thankfully I am married to someone who also feels that good personal finance management is important. We […]
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