Does Your Alma Mater Influence Your Lifetime Earnings?

Yes, although many of us were told that it “doesn’t matter” where we go to college, that we can get “just as far” as someone from one of those prestigious schools, this might not actually be the case.

Let’s Throw Some Money At Our Problems: July 2017 Monthly Check-In

It’s time to check in on our debt payments and savings goals again.

How Making a YouTube Channel Taught Me About Banking

When I was 11, I decided to make a YouTube channel. Consequently, and likely due to my youthful vitality, I became deeply intrigued by the system YouTubers used to earn profits through video advertisements and endorsements.

Monday Check-In

Happy Monday! Let’s check in on our weekend spending.

A Friday Chat About a LONG Week

Featuring Billfolder rmybrat!

Mortgage-Free by 45

Halfway through my resolution to start paying down my $67,000 mortgage on a $40,000 income.

I’m Beginning to Hate My Grocery Deals App

Why does it always have deals for EXACTLY what I’m planning to buy?

Turns Out Robot Financial Advisers Can Have Biases Too

Especially when revenue-sharing is involved.

I Quit Halfway Through Training at a Debt Collection Agency, and I Don’t Regret It

The company seemed to be doing everything it could to help you forget what your job was.

Friday Estimate

Happy Friday! Another week has gone by and it is time to estimate our weekend spending.

You Should Be Making $200,000 by 40

But making $80K is fine. Or $75K.

Farewell, Knitting Life

Six months of trying to learn to knit.

Mint’s Graphs Show Me Exactly When I Started Cutting Back on My Spending

You don’t even need the actual numbers.

RIP, Beer

Millennials killed you.

Why I Quit Using “Plastic Money”

And how I’ve become much more cognizant about how I spend it.

Do 1 Thing and Vouch You’ll Complete It

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time to Do 1 Thing.

More Political Decisions That Affect Our Ability to Earn and Save Money

Healthcare, overtime pay, and the ban on transgender people in the military.

Halfway and Half-Assed: Loyalty Cards I Have Neglected

I have six Hale & Hearty cards at the bottoms of old purses.

We’re Happier if We Pay Someone Else to Do Our Chores

A new study asks why people don’t just “buy free time.”

“You Don’t Have to Invest the Money”

Another expert argues for cash liquidity… so you can use your cash to take risks that might out-earn the market.

Halfway to Financial Freedom

$14,000 is all that stands between me and freedom.

Question Wednesday

What kind of questions are on your mind this morning?

So Here’s Where We Are With Healthcare

Since that’s the only thing anyone’s talking about right now.

Socially Responsible Investing: A Conversation With a Financial Adviser

Socially responsible investments are out there if you do your research.

Am I Spending More Money on Groceries Now That I’m Using My Grocery Deals App?

Yes. But not by much, and I’m building a stockpile of food and toiletries.