The Magic of Compound Interest

Posted on: February 6, 2018 at 1:19 pm, in:

AKA Why You Still Need to Save and Invest When You Have Debt When you’re in debt a lot of people might advise you to throw ALL your money at the debt until it is gone. But what about saving, or investing? Should you ignore that while you pay off the debt? I don’t think […]

No Spend Challenge

Posted on: January 30, 2018 at 1:28 pm, in:

Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through the link. We are attempting something I’d never thought I would do – A no spend challenge! For the month of February we wont be spending any “extra” money. Of course we’ll […]

Why You Need To Pay Yourself First

Posted on: January 23, 2018 at 1:12 pm, in:

PYF – Pay Yourself First You may have heard this term before and not know what it meant, but I’m here to tell you, it’s easy and necessary to financial success! It’s easy because once you set it up, it happens automatically. What Does Pay Yourself First Mean? It means putting money into a savings […]

How To Deal With Overspending

Posted on: January 9, 2018 at 1:26 pm, in:

I want to talk about something that happens to every one of us: overspending. December was a hard month on our budget, we went over budget in a lot of categories. Part of it was plain overspending, and part of it was oversight on my part, forgetting to include irregular expenses in our monthly budget. […]