Tiffany Raiford

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.

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  • in Careers

    Lessons You Can Learn from Moms That Make Six Figures

    Balancing life and children is a challenge at the best of times. Now imagine balancing your life, your high-earning career and your kids at the same time – seems impossible right? Wrong; it is not impossible. It’s not easy, but it certainly is not impossible. Sure, there are some women who work high-power, high-earning careers […] More

  • in Relationships

    10 Ways Having Kids Changes a Marriage

    First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage; we trilled this little diddy our entirely lives and then we grew up, did it and now we are living it. Marriage and kids are a fabulous mix and they are also tragic mix. There’s a lot of sacrifice that comes […] More

  • in Parenting

    How To Effectively Investigate a Nanny’s Background

    Trusting people with your kids is no easy feat. For me, the only person I trust implicitly with them is my husband. While I trust our parents and our relatives more than anyone in the world, I’d say pretty implicitly, I still worry that they might not be able to do everything correctly, handle everything […] More

  • in Parenting

    An Open Letter To Parents Who Smoke Around Their Children

    No bumpers in the cribs, frequent bed checks at night, constant baby monitor-monitoring; these are just a few of the everyday things that I do as the mother of four small kids to ensure their safety. I read with them, I play with them, I teach them to wash their hands and have good hygiene […] More

  • in Careers

    10 Human Jobs a Robot Will Never Be Able To Do

    The only thing that burns more than being passed over for a job in favor of another person is being passed over for a job that’s being given to a robot. It might sound like a horror scene from a science-fiction movie, but it’s actual real life these days. That’s right; robots are actually taking […] More

  • in Personal Finance

    Sales Don’t Mean You’re Saving Money!

    Today I saved $1700 when I was shopping at Neiman Marcus for a pair of Christian Louboutin heels to wear this weekend on a trip my husband and I are taking to New York City, as well as a gorgeous new dress. I mean, seriously; aren’t you about as green as you can possibly get […] More

  • in Budgeting

    How to Fight Budget Burnout With Smaller Indulgences

    Discipline is not something that most of us always have. Maybe in some instances we do, but in others we fail tremendously. It’s all right to fail and to have to work on your discipline where certain things are concerned; that’s how we learn. Failures and mistakes make us a lot more intelligent in the […] More

  • in Budgeting

    A Budgeting Trick That Will Give You Financial Independence

    Financial independence is the American dream. Sure, we all want to own a home and have a white picket fence and 2.4 kids (I mean, I don’t know about that – I’d shoot for a whole number myself, but math is not my strong suit so you go ahead and do what you like in […] More

  • in Personal Finance

    Five Mistakes To Avoid When Purchasing a New Home

    Being a homeowner is one of the most amazing feelings in the world; trust me. I didn’t fully recognize this when I built my first home with my husband 10 years ago. I was just excited to have a house at all – and we made so many mistakes. We were 19 and 20 when […] More

  • in Lifestyle

    How You Can Sell Your Old Phone for the Most Money

    Did anyone else hear that Apple has introduced a new iPhone? It happened yesterday, and it was one of the worst kept secrets in America for the past few weeks. The company that famously invented the iPhone is now introducing a newer, better, probably much larger so you’ll need a new car kind of phone […] More

  • in Parenting

    A Mother’s Biggest Fears About Preschool

    My oldest just began the second grade and my ‘middle’ daughter just started VPK, which I’m pretty sure makes me a preschool pro (do I get some sort of medal or trophy or something for that?). As a mother of four, I can tell you with certainty that it does get easier each time a […] More

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