When I’m not honing my negotiation skills with my four-year-old—yes, we brought a 10-inch snowball from home to nursery school today, but we did not transport it inside the car (yes! winning!)—or teaching GRE classes or bulk cooking … I Continue Reading
Right before Thanksgiving, I was a featured speaker at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day conference here in Wisconsin. Since I had just started a company focused on financial education for women, of course I spoke about … presentation skills. That’s right—I Continue Reading
Does anyone else feel bad for Giving Tuesday? After the lead up to Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving itself, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, that fun day at the airport when you get to buy your son a $2 banana from which he Continue Reading
It’s Thanksgiving time! If you’re anything like me, you’re beyond excited that New Year’s Day and your annual budget reset is just around the corner. If you’re not like me (i.e. you’re a laid-back, well-adjusted, and optimistic person), you’re probably Continue Reading
I like food. A lot. Mmm … food. And it’s a big line item in the ol’ budget, as it probably is for you. That said, I just took a quick look back at budgets from years past, and I Continue Reading
I have a confession to make. I have two budgets. I don’t mean two (or five) versions of my budget that support, say, different financial goals. I mean I have two everyday budgets that I track my spending against. One Continue Reading
Nobody believes me, but when we moved from New York City to Madison in 2013, our housing costs went up. A lot. The reasons for that had less to do with Madison—though the region does have a higher-than-average cost of Continue Reading
How’s the expense tracking going 😀? As these 30 days go by and you’re jotting down items in your little notebook, let’s talk about the number one line item you want to excise from your monthly budget—credit card payments. Don’t Continue Reading
In Budgets, Part 1, we talked about the what’s going out part of the budget equation. Let’s turn now to what’s coming in … your income. If you’re a salaried employee, this number is likely steady and predictable. Each pay Continue Reading
So you’ve set some goals. You’ve calculated your Net Worth. Now what? Now you get to budget! That’s right—you get to budget. And no, I’m not going to call it a “spending plan” or some other euphemism. Budgeting is delightful. Continue Reading
