A few months ago, I launched my debt payoff series: inspiring stories from people who have paid off or are in the middle of paying off debt. I figured you've been hearing enough about my debt payoff journey, and you might want some inspiration from others!In this post, Jon from Compounding Pennies discusses his debt payoff journey, what he did to pay off debt, his struggles and his Continue Reading
My Ruthless Christmas Gift Plan
This time last year I was several hundred dollars in debt - from Christmas presents. I couldn’t believe something that gave me so much joy in the moment could cause me so much pain only a few weeks later.That was right before I got into personal finance and started feverishly reading all I could about budgeting and managing money. In January, B and I sat down with an Excel spreadsheet and Continue Reading
Millennial Women Blogs to Follow in 2019
I know it's not 2019 yet, but listen. I can't hold back anymore about how awesome and useful these blogs are below. Are you a Millennial woman who feels like no one is talking about personal finance for you? There are personal finance blogs for so many groups of people, and there are commercialized sites that want to sell you stuff (but have tidbits of useful info, too!) - but what about personal Continue Reading
How to Start Your Own Crafting Business
Are you a Martha Stewart type and you’re ready to take your crafting hobby to the next level? Intent is one thing but transitioning your arts and crafts time into a legitimate side hustle is a completely different ball game. The first step is sitting down, creating a business plan, and asking yourself questions about your company setup and structure. Where will you sell your wares? What is your 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