Emotional spending. Has anyone else been there? There was a time in my life when I could find pretty much any reason to go shopping. Most often I shopped as a pick-me-up, when I was feeling bummed out or sad about something. Ironically, my days of shopping as a sport happened to coincide with some […]
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 >>Black Friday Blue Light Crap Alert
I should have known it would happen. I told myself that I was not going to go Black Friday shopping this year. But somehow a couple days before the day I managed to have a change of heart and decide that Black Friday might be a good day to purchase a space heater for our […]
READ MORE >>5 Financial Tips I’ve Learned from Bloggers
One of the coolest things about starting a blog and networking with other bloggers is that it gives me the opportunity to read a LOT of articles about personal finance. I have been surprised by not only how much I’ve learned abut blogging and website creation (which is a TON! I knew nothing when I […]
READ MORE >>Happy Black Friday!
Hi everyone! Happy Black Friday! In case you missed my guest post this week over at Fit is the New Poor about our family’s favorite story of Black Friday mayhem, here it is. Thanks to Michelle for allowing me to guest post! Have a great long weekend everyone! Photo credit: gadgetdude @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgetdude/
READ MORE >>Top 6 Reasons to Look Your Bank Statements Over Carefully
Just this week I’ve had two instances where monitoring my bank statements carefully is paying off. Well to be truthful, one of these instances is a case where monitoring my statements carefully is paying off and the other is an example of why I should have been monitoring more closely. 🙂 Here are my top […]
READ MORE >>Learning from Money Mistakes #2: Buying a home to live in short-term
Hello everyone! Welcome to the second post in my new series, Learning from Money Mistakes. The idea behind this series is simple: I have certainly made my fair share of money mistakes along the way, and luckily I have learned from all of them! So I am sharing my money mistakes with you all with […]
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