Last month was busy, and this month really didn’t let up… at all. It’s all been a big lead up to this coming week: back to school for my kiddo and FinCon for me! FinCon, the financial media conference, is now an annual thing for me (or at least it will be, after this coming […]
Everything That Was ACTUALLY Useful the Week After I Had My Baby
When I was pregnant with my son 3 years ago, I tried as hard as I could not to overbuy stuff. There’s no shortage of media out there trying to tell you all the things you must have for a baby. I wanted to be frugal and to avoid stuffing our small apartment to the […]
Net Worth Update: July 2019
I’ve been busy before at various times in my life. Like when I was in college full time and working 3 jobs and writing for someone else for free (somehow I didn’t die of exhaustion). But I swear, this month took the cake. Work’s been busy, my kid has been in swim classes and also […]
Net Worth Update: June 2019
In my rush to finally get a blog post written last month, I neglected to mention that it marked the 10th anniversary of my college graduation ceremony. Of course, thanks to the Great Recession and a complete lack of knowing-what-the-heck-I-was-meant-to-do-in-this-world, it would be another four months before I could find even gig work to “enter […]
Net Worth Update: May 2019
Well, I up and disappeared for nearly a month again. I probably should have known that doing some travel the last weekend of the month would throw everything off kilter, but I didn’t realize how much off things would get. And, to be honest, maybe I didn’t want to write about this month any sooner […]