Buckle your seatbelts, folks. This is one of my FAVORITE topics. And it just so happens that I’m a little bit of an expert on it. I think that donating time and money should be important pieces to our financial and family puzzle. But how do you choose a charity that you can trust? First, … Read more
Budgets fail for many, many reasons. We forgot to account for the car insurance payment. We had an accident and had unforeseen medical expenses. We got invited to a birthday party and needed a gift. The list could go on forever. But there is one major reason that budgets fail. What do I mean? I’ll … Read more
5 Simple Ways to Teach Money Management to Kids Money management is not something we are born with. If you lay out bills of different denominations for a four-year-old and ask him which he would like to have, he will pick the prettiest bill. He will not pick the largest denomination because, to him, it … Read more
The Parent’s Simple Guide to College Savings In 2017, the average total expenses for a private college was more than $50,000. Per year! Imagine what that will soar to when my 3-year-old and 1-year-old are starting to look at colleges. In fact, here’s a calculator to calculate how much you’ll need to save for college expenses. Gulp. … Read more
Getting Out of Your Own Way to Reach Your Goals There is something invigorating about ending one year and starting a new year. We always have so many “resolutions,” or goals that we want to accomplish in the new year. But 80% of goals in the new year are abandoned by February! I’ve done it, … Read more
How Weekly Meetings with my Husband Helped our Finances I love spending time with and talking to my husband, which is a good thing because I plan to spend a pretty long time with him. We talk about everything. But we didn’t talk much about our finances for the first few years of our marriage. … Read more
What Kind of Relationship do You Have with Money? Have you thought about your relationship with money? As with any relationship, you are bound to have good times and not so good times, but just like our interpersonal relationships, what we learned as children about money affects the decisions we make as adults. What are … Read more
How Budgets are Like Diets & How to Succeed with Both 95% of diets fail within the first two months. Budgets aren’t far behind. But the real questions are why do they fail and what can we do to change that? Is it that we don’t have enough knowledge? Is it that we need more … Read more
Why Your Goals Should be Big and Scary It’s January (barely, I know) and it’s the time that we think about resolutions and goal-setting. I’ve thought a lot about these topics this year because I have big things I want to accomplish in 2018. The more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve come to … Read more
4 Reasons You Need to Fit in Self-Care as a Busy Mom My mom, bless her heart, was selfless. You know the type. She would rush home from work to make dinner and make sure that the peas didn’t touch the potatoes for my brother, put extra salt in the sauce for my father, make … Read more
