Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
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When it’s time to buy a new home, you’re going to learn more about mortgages than you probably ever wanted to know. Trust me; I have two of them. When my husband and I became engaged in 2003, we decided we wanted to graduate college and build a house before we got married. We were […] More
I don’t like math, but I did some this morning; and there are only 12 weeks left until your kids get up in the morning and tear through the house at the crack of dawn waking up everyone in their line of fire to open their Christmas presents. It’s all well and good unless you […] More
It’s not a big real estate secret that realtors want you to stage your home before you list it. There are certain truths that come with selling a home that we all know to be true; a staged home is a far more appealing home. Would you rather go into a home that’s filled with […] More
To be successful, you have to be willing to do what no one else is willing to do. You have to do things you don’t want to do on occasion. You have to work when you don’t want to work. You have to be present, you have to be persistent, and you have to step […] More
Divorce is an ugly, ugly situation in many instances. In my own life, I’ve been very fortunate to have only known one couple who has gone through a divorce and being that I’m turning 33 in a few weeks, that’s pretty impressive. The people in my life stay married. They marry young, they grow old […] More
Three times this year my family has had to do the medical insurance search thing. First we began with the annual issue of seeing whether or not our current plan still worked for us or if there was anything that we wanted to change, add or remove from our policy through my husband’s employer. Following […] More
Once upon a time there was a little girl who liked to color on her white furniture with markers unbeknownst to her parents. It seems she snuck them out of her big sister’s bedroom, but she did not think to take with her paper. She hoarded the markers and would color on her furniture regularly […] More
Placing your home on the market for sale is a stressful situation at best, but it gets even worse when your realtor calls to tell you that she is showing your house in 20 minutes. You’re home, on the couch, in your yoga pants binge-watching something amazing on Netflix, and your house is not show […] More
The American dream has changed a bit over the past few years. Don’t quote me on that, because I don’t know if that’s official or whatever; but people are more likely to say their own American dream is to be debt-free now than they are to say home-ownership is on their list of big dreams. […] More
All right, it’s been a few days since we last discussed a credit card you might want to consider adding to your wallet, but we did that for a reason. There is a brand new credit card that just launched in an official capacity that you have to learn all about. It’s the Chase Sapphire […] More
When you begin the process of paying off your debts, it can seem like a long one. Whether it takes you 12 months or 12 years, the process of spending every last available dime you have to pay off debts you incurred in the past is a big deal. It goes by so much faster […] More
Budgets are a great thing financially speaking, but they certainly make life seem a lot less fun. Turning down invitation after invitation, forgoing events, skipping fun outings and staying home eating the same boring meals night after night can really cramp your style and put you in a foul mood. Too bad, though; because you […] More