Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.
The problem with new furniture is that it is outrageously expensive. My husband and I are going through a fairly major renovation of our new home; and that includes clearing the property the original builder never cleared ā over an acre worth ā and redoing the cabinets and countertops in the kitchen and three bathrooms, […] More
The vast majority of the population is not financial experts and, therefore, credit score ranges are something of a mystery. You know offhand that these credit score ranges are important and that they do have meaning, but the vast majority of us have no idea what they actually are and what they mean. You can […] More
In my line of work, I receive hundreds of emails, Facebook and Instagram messages every single day. Itās common when you put yourself out there and you have so many people reading your work, disagreeing with what you have to say (and rarely ever do people disagree in a respectful mannerā¦letās work on that) or […] More
Ā Ask anyone for their opinion on money, and they will all give you a different answer. No one views money the same way as others, and sometimes the way that people do view their finances is healthy or unhealthy. The point of the matter is that we all have great views of money and we […] More
The Amazon baby registry is one of the best things to happen to moms and dads-to-be since that positive pregnancy test. Seriously, people love Amazon. They love it because they get free two-day shipping with that Prime membership and because things on Amazon are almost always less expensive than they are elsewhere. You get points […] More
We love to save you money and make your life that much simpler, and sometimes that requires thinking a bit outside the realm of savings accounts, credit cards and how to make money with side jobs and other ideas. Sometimes it means thinking of things that donāt necessarily scream, āsavings!ā but whisper, āwise decision,ā and […] More
No one wants to spend a fortune to move. Letās think about it this way; you just spent a fortune on a new house, so why would you want to spend even more transporting your belongings from point A to point B, your new house? It was expensive enough on its own to buy said […] More
LifeĀ is such an eye-opener. When I look at life, I see my own stuff. My own happiness, my own problems, my own way of life. I get so accustomed to the way that we do things in our family that itās always a bit of a surprise to me when other people mention how they […] More
Everyone knows that the most exclusive credit card in the world is the American Express Black Card. Itās reserved for the wealthiest of the wealthiest, and itās a credit card that signifies that you have made it. This is a very exclusive card in that you wonāt even find an application for the American Express […] More
Reader email: Hi SheBudgets! I love the site and have been a reader for the past three years. My credit score is pretty bad and I’m interviewing for a higher paying job at a company I’d love to work for. Can you be denied a job because of bad credit? Thanks, Beth Unfortunately, if you […] More
We all already know that childrenās birthday parties are the devil. But we still have to celebrate our kids, and who are we to tell them that they cannot have a party if thatās what they want? Allow me to take a moment right here to breathe a large sigh of relief that our daughter, […] More
An Guide To Save Money On Car Rentals With four small kids, four big car seats and four kids’ worth of stuff to bring everywhere we go, we don’t do a lot of road trips. Also, I don’t love road trips. We travel often, and we take our kids much of time, but we fly. […] More