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This past January I opened my first credit card in two years. I love the idea of credit cards but I had to give it up. I was using it just irresponsibly enough to make a dent in my finances that I didn’t want. I never raked up credit card debt into the thousands the […]

Welcome back for another round of Smart or Dumb! Smart or Dumb is a series here where I present a financial question I have to my readers. I’ll present the question and you dear readers, must choose definitively one side, Smart or Dumb. You can’t waffle in between or play the devil’s advocate. You pick […]

This week I turned 27 years old! All grown up and blogging just like an adult. As I have gracefully aged another year and gained more wisdom, I thought it was a good moment to reflect on the financial and life lessons learned in the past year. KaraKara Perez is the original founder of From Frugal […]

South By Southwest has come and gone and it with have gone the 10 hour catering days, the miles of walking through blocked off streets and the massive crowds from the world over. While SXSW is an incredible experience and at times pretty damn cool, it’s pretty much just exhausting when you’re only working and […]

Last week the 2015 Oscar nominees were announced. If you’ve paid even the slightest attention to it, you know that there was some very real backlash to the list this year. While the Oscars, like Hollywood, traditionally are dominated by white male stories, actors and directors, this year they were particularly so. KaraKara Perez is the […]

(source) Nicki Minaj is a woman-one who is making sure no one forgets that. Through both her lyrics and her appearance, Nicki Minaj has confronted the male gaze and championed over it. She displays herself as a hyper-female woman in the mostly male dominated world of hip-hop and mainstream music. KaraKara Perez is the original founder of […]

You know what most people are practically incapable of? Admitting that their opinions have changed. We tend to form an opinion and cling to it with every fiber of our being; if we once stated that we hate something, we forever cling to that hatred, oftentimes flying in the face of evidence to the contrary. […]

Paying off debt is hard work. Even if you’re crazy excited to do it like me and get a little thrill when you submit a payment, it’s hard to allocate money each month to give to someone else. It’s even harder not think what you could do with that money. A trip to Europe? A […]

Variety reported on Tuesday that 21st Century Fox would this week launch a mentoring program for female film directors. The program will last five weeks and have twenty participants. At the end of the five weeks, five finalists will be selected to receive additional mentoring and funding for another 10 months. Fox’s announcement directly tackles the […]