I’ll be the first to say it: I am not perfect. I know that my blog may have led you to believe otherwise, but it’s true. I am a mere mortal, and I often lose the battles against my bad habits. I’ve been trying harder to beat them recently. Being a freelancer means that I […]
An Awesome August Announcement!
Happy August y’all! Do you like the alliteration in my title? 😉 We’re only three days in, but I am loving August so far. Yesterday I woke up with a smile on my face, enjoyed a quiet morning savoring my cup of coffee, and started work early. I got right into some nitty gritty aspects […]
To Be Frugal, You Need Time
As those of you who follow me on Twitter may know, I had some car troubles last week. (Cars are annoying and expensive, and I can’t wait to get rid of mine someday.) My car simply shut down in the middle of traffic on three different occasions last week. Twice on the highway! Anytime something […]
Present Bias And Debt: A Match Made in Hell
A few weeks ago I was talking with a new college grad. I shared my journey out of debt with him, and stressed that the best thing he can do for himself now (at age 22) is to start paying down his own student loans. Â He listened, very politely, to my story and agreed that […]
Stock Market Tips for New Investors
Hey y’all! This is a contributed post by Brianna Hall. She is a freelance blogger who has been exploring ways on how she can reach financial freedom soon. Being a Millennials, she has high hopes that she can change the way her generation thinks about investment. Brianna is now working on her investment portfolio through […]
How to Build A Business When You’re Broke
I think it’s a very human trait to want to leave an impact. It’s in our genetic code to want to build something that we will be remembered by. The Maya built pyramids. Alexander the Great named more than 20 cities after himself. We want to create, to build something of our own. Today it’s less […]
The Business of Starting a Business: Organization Tactics
I have officially been a full time freelancer for three weeks TODAY, and it’s been amazing. I haven’t been working all that hard or all that much over the last three weeks on freelancing. I wanted to take some serious down time to really mentally separate from my nonprofit job, sleep a lot, and figure […]
Reflections on One Year of Debt Freedom
Life has been so busy that last week when my one year anniversary of debt freedom came, it also went pretty damn quick. I blinked and poof! It had passed me by. Still, June 5th 2015 was one of the most important days of my life.  Even though I’m eleven days late, I do want to take […]
June Spending and Life Plan
Happy June! I love the start of a new month. June, in particular, has always heralded the start of summer for me personally. This June I’ve got big plans, financial and otherwise, and I can’t wait to share them.
The Privilege I Have Despite Being Broke
Privilege is a funny word. It gets thrown around a lot these days but few people I’ve met seem to really understand what it means. People seem to think privilege means ‘no problems ever!’ when in reality it means that you simply started out in a better place than some other people. It means certain […]