Investing, saving, spending less, credit management, making money, running a business, anything else financial. I have an MBA, so this is my “wheelhouse”.
In March of 2020, a wave of super cooties spanned the globe and the law firm I was administrator of closed its doors for good. I had done some “side hustles’ already to get out of the house, but was put in a position where I had to be more Read more…
Things can get tight when you have a family and a lot of bills. I used to feel overrun. The income and bills seemed to align well enough, but there was no wiggle room, no savings and credit cards needed to be used sometimes. Then in March of this year, Read more…
So, If your scroll down to my 2016 post about how I saved over $14,000 in one year on stuff that I didn’t need, you have a good jumping off point. That post referenced a time before we added kids to our life though, so there are more savings to Read more…
So a little intro into my inexpensive lifestyle….If you’ve read ANY of my posts on money, it becomes pretty clear that I’m not one to waste money. I was raised by a very cheap mother and a financially wasteful father, and I was terrified to spend money. Now, I don’t Read more…
I’m ready to work a day job other than being a Mom. I LOVE being a Mom, but Alex has an art degree and I have an MBA, and it may make more sense to have me dialing for dollars in corporate America than to have Alex at an IT Read more…
so credit is a tricky beast. Its a part of more parts of our lives than most people realize. Insurance companies set our premiums based on our credit, jobs may decide not to hire us if they aren’t impressed by our credit. It envelops our day-to-day and we need it Read more…
This is from my old, pre-babies blog, but it still has some legit savings opportunities I thought I should share here too (who can’t use savings, right?!?). As you’ll see in a post from when I found out I was pregnant with our first baby, I did pick up smoking Read more…
Before we had our baby, my drive was to find a career. Any career. I applied to major companies and a couple of startups, but literally THOUSANDS of jobs in total. I was spammed, and spammed and spammed again by “recruiters” but not many with great reputations, and the more Read more…