You often hear stories about people who lived on ramen noodle budgets for a year and paid off massive amounts of student loan or credit card debt. What you don’t hear about is how living on less can ...
Money Management
How to Happily Live on a Poverty Budget
I’ll have an update on the 7 Day Side hustle later in the week for anyone who’s wondering. Instead of talking about earning more money today I want to talk about the other side of the equation: living ...
7 Inexpensive Ways to Make Your Rental Feel Like Home
Today I'm happy to have a guest post by Jennifer Riner of Zillow. Rentals, although temporary, should exude the same comforting vibes associated with owned homes. Even though property ...
Gender Roles, Money, and Choosing the Right Partner
I’ve been reading up on personal finance for so long that honestly, a lot of the posts I read around the blogosphere (mine included, not hating on anyone) don’t excite me or even get me thinking ...
What Would You Finance? That’s the Question.
A couple weeks ago a reader left a comment on my Facebook page asking me what I thought about financing a car and how much I’d spend on a car. I had to think about it for a minute. You see, when ...
How I Budget and Save
The way I budget has drastically changed over the past two years. I’ve went from being super uptight to being laid back – a little too laid back at times. And then when I find motivation to save I ...