
Maximize Your Monthly Income Part 2: Budgeting
Have you ever gotten an unexpected check in the mail? Let’s say it was for $50. It’s exciting to get surprise money You might think, “I’m go
Have you ever gotten an unexpected check in the mail? Let’s say it was for $50. It’s exciting to get surprise money You might think, “I’m go
Friends listen to me, I’m telling you something important. I have friends who make $30k a year and friends who make $300k a year and I hear
I jumped into blogging with no idea what I was doing (could you tell?) Remember my first post, Here, have this rock? It was one of those th
I call this being in survival mode. It's not just trying to make it to the end of the month, but it's choosing between eating dinner
I haven't blogged in a while because we've been swamped with living the good life: All-Star Baseball tournaments for my studly 8 yea
Before FPU I would have said that I kept a budget. Every month I had an idea roughly how much we needed to spend. I would balance our check
In the financial class that I facilitate, there's almost always a point when people realize that they’re spending too much money. I ha
Do you know that the eighth wonder of the world (according to Albert Einstein) is compound interest? We're talking free money here peopl
The thing with money and kids is that adults aren't often very honest about their own financial mistakes. If you take your graduate as
Did you know that ‘budget’ doesn't have to mean ‘crummy’ or ‘boring’ or ‘cheap’? I have a fear that people tune out when I say the “B w
Do you know how when you do a project and make something look good and then the things around it look bad in comparison? So then you start t
You have taken the first step to taking control of the clutter in your house. This process takes time and can be stressful to imagine a cha
...negative traction on their finances. They were feeling like they would have a student loan until they died. In short, they were really d