wasting money
Rebecca
Rebecca is an attorney. She has thousands of dollars in student loan debt and has a bankruptcy under her belt. She enjoys a nice living on a six figure salary. When she moves into her new two flat apartment, she complains about it...
I had a free consultation with an accountant a few weeks ago to discuss my blogging and freelance writing gigs. While there, I also discussed my eBay business, which I plan to close this year.
After I had...
If you have ever lost a significant amount of weight, you may know about the food pushers. Those people who say, “You’re so thin; you have to eat!” or “Just try one bite of this. One little...
When my husband and I were first dating, we liked to spend Friday nights reading and doing work at a local bookstore. My husband drank coffee, and...
I cancelled my newspaper subscription a few weeks ago because I am trying to trim our expenses in preparation for the big income cut starting in January and because the only reason I got the paper was...
Derrick has had a stressful day at work, and when he comes home he doesn’t feel like cooking. He tells himself that he “deserves” a night out at a restaurant. This is repeated at least...
We all know about keeping up with the Joneses and what havoc that can wreak on personal finance. When you try to keep up with the Jones’, you spend money you probably don’t have to get all...
Within the last several weeks, two of the bloggers I read regularly have written posts about their parents and how little they learned about finances from them. Each of these bloggers basically said that they were lucky...
I created this blog so that I can relearn how to be frugal. My husband and I were fairly good at frugality early in our marriage, but as my income increased and we became busier, we...