While I’m driving around the U.S, I’ve asked a few personal finance friends to share their wisdom. Today we have Taylor from The Freedom of Money. Taylor is talking about a topic that’s personal to me: knowing that you have enough. Conquering money fears is hard work, and Taylor is fighting the good fight.
Guest Post: Save Money By Beating Anchor Pricing
While I’m driving around the U.S, I’ve asked a few personal finance friends to share their wisdom. Today we have Maggie of NorthernExpenditure.com here. Maggie is dishing out great advice on how to avoid being tricked into spending more money by beating our own brains. Behavioral Economics for the frugal win! Kara was so sweet […]
A Personal Finance Blogger, Post FinCon16
FinCon16 is over! I spent so much time anticipating the conference, and then so much time being awake at it, that my mind is totally mush right now. I’m laying on a friends couch typing, and I just want to fall back asleep! This won’t be too long, since there’s exploring to be done, but […]
World Suicide Prevention Day
This blog post is part of the World Suicide Prevention Day blog tour. If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.Suicide.org
Guest Post Guidelines
Interested in guest posting on this here blog? Great! We’d love to have you. We accept guest posts from individual writers and bloggers. We want you to write in your own voice about your own financial journey. Posts by or for companies, or ones that are general ‘how to’ posts fall under sponsored posts. How […]
I Don’t Budget, And It’s Ok
This may come as a shock to some of my newer readers, but I actually do not budget. I generally live my life on frugal autopilot- I just avoiding spending money. At this point, I’ve been doing this frugal living thing for two years, and I’ve optimized my life to save as much as possible. […]
The Business of Starting a Business: Working From the Road
One of the things that most drew me to freelancing was the freedom of it. Not only can I set my own hours, but I can work from anywhere that has an internet connection. I could be in a Parisian cafe, or holed up in an apartment in Buenos Aires, and I can still run […]
On Doing Things Before You’re Ready
A few years ago I heard a powerful quote: “Great people do things before they’re ready.” It knocked me the fuck out, because I really feel that’s the story of my life. I tend to leap before I look. God knows I’m not a detail person- I see the big picture and I fall right into […]
An Anxious Day
I woke up yesterday morning earlier than expected. I’m home for a week, and I expected to sleep in later than I usually do. This is, after all, my vacation. I couldn’t do it though. I woke up, and I was awake. Mind alert, energy flowing, anxiety pumping. I was up, I was mildly freaking […]
Saving Money + Working Out Or: How I Became A Biker
After a round of binge-reading Mr. Money Mustache in 2014, I bought a bike off Craigslist for $60. It was a great deal- suitable for roads and trails, hardly used. I could barely get it in my car, but I brought it home and saw my future self becoming a biking goddess. And then it […]