A Penny Wise or A Pound Foolish
It’s a fact that emergency funds save lives. Mine has saved me too many times to count and I know that I will lean on it again at some time in the future. In the past I’ve outlined steps on how you can create an emergency fund and I’ve made it a habit to post […]
Sometimes families that are surviving on one income are not doing so by choice. People always seem to think that when others are in certain situations, it was done by choice. Some single income households come about because the sole breadwinner is in a financial position to support the entire family quite comfortably. But some […]
At the end of 2019, I decided that in 2020, I want to simplify the way that I look at a lot of things. One of these things is the way that I budget. When it comes to my finances, I tend to overthink something as simple as budgeting. Over the years, I’ve changed my […]
The end of the year is here and you have a few hours left to get your end of year personal finance must dos in order. There are several websites that provide excellent and detailed suggestions that will help you to start the new financial year on the right foot. Below you will see some […]
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Because getting our personal finances in order can be a chore, my gift to you this year is some of the best financial lessons from Christmas movies. To be honest, I’m not the most cheery and merry elf on the shelf, but I love a good Christmas movie. There […]
The road to financial prosperity and being debt free can seem quite far away when you’re over $10,000 in debt. Seeing all of those zeroes looking back at you can be scary, if you do not have a plan with a goal. This financial story that I am writing for myself will have a happy […]
A few years ago, I discovered the sinking fund budgeting method on the Daily Money Shot blog. It was in the early days of blogging on Odd Cents and I was an active reader of several personal finance blogs. At that time, I had a rotation of blogs that I used to visit every week […]
For the last few months I have been in a funk and I know that it has been changing my life in both known and unknown ways. This laziness has crept into my personal finance life and as a result I have been slacking off on my financial tracking. The good news is that I […]
