How Do We Afford to Dress for the Jobs We Want?
Especially when we’re trying to look like we belong to a different socioeconomic class?
Question Wednesday
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to release your financial questions.
A Tuesday Chat About Dogecoin
The Indicator (from Planet Money) team chats with Jackson Palmer, the inventor of Dogecoin.
The Cost of Moving Gran
Six months ago we discovered my grandmother had outlived her savings and could no longer afford to stay in her home.
Checking In With My Groceries vs. Toiletries Project
Remember how I said I was going to separate out grocery and household/toiletry spending in 2018?
Walmart Is Reportedly Firing 3,500 Co-Managers
But they can apply for one of the 1,700 new, lower-paying assistant store manager jobs!
Tuesday Check-In
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time to check in on our long weekend spending.
Why I Never Moved
It’s not easy to consider leaving a place you love, filled with people you love to boot.
So You Want to Be a Landlord
We did a lot of stuff wrong when we bought our building, but we also did a lot of stuff right.
The Cost of Moving On: How I Justified My $100 Gym Membership
It was the nicest adult daycare I could possibly check myself into.
Walmart Will Earn Back Its Wage Increase in Nine Days
Also, it’s closing 63 Sam’s Clubs and eliminating thousands of jobs.
S Is for Self-Sufficiency: What Sue Grafton’s Mystery Novels Tell Us About Money
Kinsey Millhone cuts her own hair, uses coupons, and wears the same black dress over and over.
Walmart Is Increasing Wages, Thanks to the Tax Bill
They’re bumping starting wages from $9 per hour to $11.
The Cost of a New Last Name
When my husband and I got married, we decided to create a new last name together.
Kids These Days: A Billfold Book Review
Let’s take a look at Malcolm Harris’s Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials.
Do Women Feel Additional Pressure to Be “Good With Money?”
At Shondaland, Meredith Fineman takes a look at how the impulse to apologize for our finances affects women.
Do 1 Thing Before the Quarterly Tax Deadline
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time to Do 1 Thing.
When You Think You’ll Never Be Free of Student Loan Debt
The Washington Post profiles a 31-year-old woman who owes $9,000 more on her student loans than she did when she graduated — even though she’s been making steady payments.