Feb 23, 2018

After I had been tracking my expenses for a while, I decided to start creating budgets. That’s what you did, right? Every book I had said so. My thinking was that I could use the budget to help me curtail some of the extra spending I wanted to cut down on. Bear in mind that the bills, such a rent and phone and electricity etc, as well as the savings goals...

Feb 9, 2018

It’s often said that we spend our money on what we value. Early in my quest for financial literacy, I was advised to assess my value system and then align my spending accordingly. Sounds good… Story Time Trying to follow the advice of aligning my values with my spending, I sat down and created a list of my values. Then I created a budget which fell...

Feb 2, 2018

To hear this post instead of reading it, jump to the bottom and listen to the embedded audio file. There is a little corner of this blog/podcast that I’m reserving for the financial realm. I call it Financial Friday, and I’m pretty sure you can guess on what day I plan to schedule releases. For this inaugural foray into this category, I’ll lay...