Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully.
In October of last year I received an email about the Rockstar Finance 2018 Community Giving Event and immediately knew I would apply. If you aren’t familiar with the event I’ll give you the quick run down. At the end of the year Rockstar Finance planned to give away fifty-two Amazon and Visa gift cards … Read more
Money Win: I haven’t purchased a brand new book in over seven years! I don’t love the location of our house but I do love it’s proximity to the library. When the weather is nice and time is on my side I’ll walk there with my son. If I’m in a hurry I can drive … Read more
Who wants to live a monotonous life void of fun and adventure? Who wants to feel like they wasted their time on this earth working in a cavernous, thirty or forty year career? Um, I’m pretty sure no one. We can all be sold on a better life and there are plenty of people touting … Read more
My oldest son has always been a builder. He’s the type of kid that wandered over to the giant wooden blocks in preschool and never walked away. While all of the other children eventually left to play dress up or craft colorful art projects my son stayed firmly planted on the rainbow carpet which muffled … Read more
A fellow personal finance blogger, who I deeply respect and admire, recently asked me how I help my children embrace the concept of owning less. She specifically asked how I talk to my children about “not needing everything that everyone else has just because you don’t have it.” I thought long and hard about this … Read more
In social circles I am often hesitant to discuss the fact that I own a beach house. I feel like the dynamic changes once people find out I own a vacation rental home, so I usually keep this information to myself. (This was certainly more true in my late twenties. It’s a little less so … Read more
I met K in the sixth grade. After transitioning from a very small elementary school I found myself navigating the waters of middle school for the very first time and doing my best to make new friends. K was the new kid at school and after a hellish fifth grade experience with a mean girl … Read more
Here is a little self-promotion for the day. My post is currently live in the Rockstar Rumble, which pits personal finance articles against one another in a March madness type bracket. Please visit this link. Then check the box for Empowerment and click the vote button. I’d love to make it to the next round!
I’m going to say something that might sound a bit radical, but here it goes… Work is not always fun and I think we could all find a little more joy in our current jobs and lives if we recognized this fact and moved on from it. Work is Not Fun As a child I … Read more
I can clearly remember sitting at a desk in graduate school crunching financial numbers. As the professor rattled on about data management I pulled out a lined piece of paper and began to scribble down various amounts. How much was my car payment that month? How much did I owe for rent and utilities? How … Read more