Unlike me, my husband has never had good credit. When we first started dating nearly 8 years ago he actually had a score somewhere in the 400’s. He’s not proud of that but he worked hard paying off old medical collection bills, and was finally able to open an unsecured credit card of his own. …
I’m a planner. I’ve always been one. I always will be. So when my son was born, I immediately started saving money for his “college fund”. Even if it was a measly $10 every two weeks at the time (we were two 25 year old kids with a baby and a cat, living off of …
Published on March 24th, 2020 $11,930 That’s a lot of money. I would even go so far as to say that at one time in my life, it’s more than I thought I would have ever seen. I turned 18 before the “Great Recession” hit. (Does it bother anyone else to call it that?) Anyway, …
Published on February 28th, 2020 Unpopular opinion: Healthy IS in fact cheap. I don’t know exactly why but somewhere along the way, collectively our society began to regurgitate the biggest contributing myth to our rising health crisis: “Eating healthy is too expensive.“ Well, I’m calling bullshit. I actually have called bullshit on this, time and …
Published January 1, 2020 Or rather, we’re $279,000 in debt. That’s right. My husband and I, nearing that ever-looming 30 year age mark are just over a quarter of a million dollars in debt. And for the most part, we don’t actually mind it. No, it’s not student loan debt. Unlike most of our millennial …
Published July 18, 2016 Becoming a stay at home mom can be pretty rough. For how easy most people think it is, it’s actually incredibly challenging to be plucked out of your old life and placed into another with so many restrictions. I love my son to death, and I would make the same decision …
