Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
While this might have been a funny or unfunny version of my venting, there are some things I felt need to be addressed. 3 personal finance lessons from eating ketchup.Human nature loves entertainment than something serious, even if it will improve our lives. You can relate finance to anything, just gotta be creative. There is a sweet spot for everyone in finance – just like the 57 spots for ketchup bottleKeep your finance simple – don’t be hot or cold. Pick a strategy and stay the courseDon’t jump into any investment without doing your due diligence – Ketchup cure did not work – no magic formula for investing.
Traditionally, a tithe was a tenth of your income. But why should we tithe, and is it still ten percent? See how giving has a greater impact than you think.
Don't let the title- mathematics for business and personal finance scare you. In this article, the mathematics involved are very simple yet so important to know if you want to improve your financial outlook.
In this post, I’ll share all of the accounts, tools, and apps I use for my own money. My hope with this post is that it gives you ideas for how you can set things up with your own money system.
To mix things up this week, I ended up with a theme for these three posts today. Considering we are in the middle of climate strikes – and real discussions on how we need to take climate change seriously – it feels appropriate to curate this roundup in this way. Personal finance is a great…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Do you know how much you should have saved by your current age? Your Savings Rate is critical to achieving Financial Independence and Early Retirement
The early retirement core: An early retiree, with energy, youth, recently active professional skills and freedom from vested interests can do as well or better and provide a much-needed corps for enhancing and revitalizing our culture.
There are all kinds of personal finance statistics floating around on the internet. It's easy to quote a financial statistic to support almost anything you have to say. In the past few years of researching
Lots of people have become wealthy through real estate, but is investing in real estate worth it for you? Here are the pros and cons from an actual investor
It’s rained quite a bit lately, with a few breaks for the sun, but the weather has warmed up enough that it feels like spring. And really, it’s the mild rain that makes it most feel like spring, more than the sun, because that and the gray is what we tend to see most up…
It took almost 10 years for me to finally begin the process of creating a living trust. I share my experience through the whole process.
How much can you make with Airbnb? We're happy to report that our inaugural year concluded in December with excellent results!
Click here now to get the frugal doctor's wife perspective on personal finance and family budgeting. No other way than for both couples to be on board when it comes to finance.
I was in DC for half of this past week (through Sunday morning) for FinCon, which feels a little surreal. One week ago today I was on day two of three of the conference for me, but looking back it’s hard to believe I was there for such a short time. Granted, I packed just…
Ever since That Frugal Pharmacist wrote a guest post here on the blog about her family’s experience with what we then coined as PrepperFI, I had meant to write my own. PrepperFI, as we’ve defined it, is the crossover of financial independence/retire early (FIRE) and emergency preparedness. With the current situation of COVID-19 here in…
There are many ways to add real estate to your portfolio. One method, real estate funds, can be close ended or open. An expert discusses this
McMansions & McModerns are the fast fashion of the real estate world. McMansions are not made to endure inevitable economic downturns. This is a financial con list of owning a McMansion using statistics over giant structures of gaudy facade.
I don't believe in early retirement because the term "early retirement" just doesn't tell the whole story. It never does.
Leaky wallet syndrome (LWS) is a psychological mindset and disease that makes it impossible for individuals to hold on to money or build wealth. The minute they earn money, they find ways to spend it almost immediately. Income is not the problem in this syndrome, it is the spending habit. While they make a decent income, these individuals find it impossible to live below their means. Examples of classic symptoms (occurs in 90%) - They have difficulty having money leftover in their checking account at the end of every month, they have many past due bills, and they are unable to pay off their entire credit card balance each month. Leaky wallet syndrome does not only apply to individuals, but it can also apply to business or family too. In this case, it is called a leaky wallet epidemic.
But for the rest of us lost cubicle souls hating on work, we're dying to know how to survive a job you hate until retirement.
I have been a real estate investor for several years now, and I can't think of a time when anyone has gotten excited about the topic of rental property accounting. I've heard many exciting tales
A few weeks ago, my dad asked me to list a few baseball cards on eBay. The cards were the 2001 rookie cards of Ichiro Suzuki and Albert Pujols. To my surprise, each card sold for several hundred dollars fast. Listing those cards brought back memories of collecting baseball cards as a kid. This article covers three crucial life lessons I've taken into adulthood from collecting baseball cards.
Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) revolutionized personal finance teaching in schools. And best of all, it's free! And you can get started today.
The story of how we found, purchased, and renovated our first rental property. Learn from our beginner real estate investing mistakes!
Have you heard of Dave Ramsey's 7 baby steps to financial freedom? For many, Dave Ramsey system is the golden truth. I am here to break it to you that some of the principles are outdated and need revamping. For example, should you pay off your mortgage instead of investing? Here are my 12 toddler steps to financial freedom.
Want to make extra money in your sleep? I recommend Drop, a new app that gives you cash back for doing your normal everyday shopping. Sign up for Drop now and get an instant $5
My mom had asked us a while back if we wanted to go to Stomp with her, and we’d said yes, and then promptly forgot about it. Late last week, she asked if we had a plan for lunch beforehand, and we scrambled to make time for it on Saturday. We had the time, but…
Struggling to learn how to manage your money? Don't know how to make a budget and stick to it? Well, here are 5 personal finance hacks to accelerate your path to financial freedom!
What do physical fitness and personal finance have in common? On the surface, there are a lot of differences between your fitness program and financial wellness. One involves income, spending, saving, and investing. The other involves physical activity, nutrition, and overall health. The reality is that financial fitness (and just fitness) are some of the most critical areas of our lives. It's no coincidence that there are striking similarities between fitness and finance once you start digging in.
I want to go over some of the strategies I’ve used over the years to mooch as much free or cheap food as I can. Hopefully, you can use some of these strategies to do the same thing.
There always a lot of discussion in the main stream financial media about retirement readiness in the United States. How do you know if you are ready? Let's look at some simple but popular retirement calculators
A comprehensive analysis of VYM - Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF. Including VYM dividend yield, dividend history, dividend growth & stock holdings.
Have you heard of Dave Ramsey's 7 baby steps to financial freedom? For many, Dave Ramsey system is the golden truth. I am here to break it to you that some of the principles are outdated and need revamping. For example, should you pay off your mortgage instead of investing? Here are my 12 toddler steps to financial freedom.
What is a personal net worth statement and why do you need one? Here's how to create your personal financial statement and start building wealth today.
