I love gift guides, because good gift guides introduce me to cool new things I would have never known about. In fact, one of my favorite gifts for my Mom I found from a gift guide: the Re-wined Candles!However, sometimes gift guides can just be money-grabs by websites or companies that want you to buy their stuff - even if it’s not the right gift for that special person in your life. I’m Continue Reading
5 Inexpensive Ways to Celebrate Your Friends This Holiday Season
As we get older, it gets a lot harder to maintain friendships. We may live far away from our best friends, they may have kids and less time to spend with us - things just change as we get older. However, just because we don’t spend as much time with our friends as we did when we were in our teens or early twenties doesn’t mean we love them any less! Continue Reading
The 5 Blogging Tools that Keep Me Sane
Following in the spirit of our epic month of Everything Blog, today we'll be talking about blogging tools that keep me sane. But first, the winner of our epic Blog Giveaway is... drum roll please... Mel from BrokeGIRLRich! Mel wins a copy of Ruth Soukup’s How to Blog for Profit Without Selling Your Soul and Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Continue Reading
Cute Couples Halloween Costume Ideas
For the longest time, dressing up for Halloween with my husband was the hardest. We'd go into the season with our own ideas of what we wanted, without seeing what the other was planning. We never had the conversation about couples Halloween costume ideas! Inevitably, this meant we would have wildly different costumes come Halloween/party time (like the one time I went as a Ninja Turtle and he wore Continue Reading
5 Things I’ve Learned as a Blogger
For the next two weeks, I’m going to be doing something a little different. Many people thought I was crazy when I left my full-time office job to “work from home”. They thought I wasn’t working, basically. That’s definitely not true! So for the next two weeks, I’m going to be running a series on blogging. It will include how I got started blogging, how you can find time to blog (if you want to!), Continue Reading
FinCon18 Recap
Now that FinCon is over, I wanted to share my recap of FinCon18, held in Orlando, FL the last week of September. Thanks to the people I met through the personal finance community, including in the FinCon Facebook group, I was able to start freelance writing on the side, which led to virtual assistant work - which has now led me to being completely location independent. That's right - thanks to Continue Reading
You’re More Than Your Debt
This blog post is part of the Suicide Prevention Awareness Month blog tour, which began in 2016 at Dear Debt in order to bring the personal finance community together to talk about something taboo: debt, depression, and suicide. You can read more about Dear Debt, support the volunteer-run project, and read other participants' posts here. I am republishing my debt stigma post from last year below. Continue Reading
Want to Be Your Own Boss and Live on Your Own Terms? Here Are Some Tips
Some people are quite happy to work in a conventional manner, with bosses to tell them what to do, team members to share the job, and the entire structure of a corporation around them to provide a sense of stability. In fact, people who are systematically-minded may even thrive in such an environment. Other people, however, yearn for the freedom to chart their own course and create Continue Reading
How to Save Money on Your Home Renovation
Renovating a house can be costly. In fact, it is very likely that it becomes the most expensive project you ever undertake, with most people spending more than their original budgets. Regardless of whether you wish to update your home’s exterior or you are just creating an extension, you should always remain prudent when budgeting. There are numerous ways, however, that you can implement to avoid Continue Reading
4 Ways to Protect Your Rental Property
Maybe you’ve been in the property business for a while and you’re looking to up your game, or perhaps you’re considering venturing in a rental property for the first time. No matter how you slice it, rental properties are a huge investment! So, it’s important to take all the measures possible to safeguard this investment. Here are a few tips to help ensure you keep business booming and keep damage Continue Reading