2023: The Year of Achieving Your Goals and Finding Success
Do you have big or small goals that you want to achieve in 2023? Whether you want to improve your health or your finances, setting and working towards goals can be a powerful way to make positive changes in your life. Put Your Money to Work for You If you’re reading this and feel like […]
How to recession-proof your life in 6 steps
Recessions are a natural part of our economy. They are generally unpleasant but if you’re prepared, you can ride it out. However, if you’re not ready, you can REALLY feel the pain. So it is essential to establish habits now to recession-proof your life to ride out the current one and the ones to come. […]
ETFs versus Mutual Funds: Which Should You Be Investing In?
Simply put, they are both great options. What you choose depends on how much flexibility you need, what platform you use, and how much money you have available to you. ETF prices fluctuate throughout the market day but tend to be cheaper than mutual funds to buy into and you can purchase fractional shares on […]
Set Yourself Up for a Healthy and Successful 2022
Let’s talk about some goals you can choose to improve your physical and financial health. 2021 is coming to an end. Honestly outside in 2021 was only mildly better than that disastrous 2020. However, there were some bright spots. I got to travel at the end of November and my financial picture looks as good […]
Investing with Stash – Great App for Beginner Investors
If you’ve never invested before, it may feel quite intimidating to get started. Maybe you don’t feel like you know enough to start. Or maybe you feel you need to have a ton of extra money to get started. Or perhaps you feel that investing is just not for people like you. All these are […]
Financial Update – Results Quarter 3 2021
Hello all! I wanted to provide another financial update to show you what I have been up to for the last few months. Why? So you can see what works for me in case it could work for you too. I also share my financial mistakes in the hopes that you can avoid making them […]
The Best Way to Successfully Build An Emergency Fund
Today’s post is graciously shared by Frugal Beans, our frugal friends from Sydney, Australia. After reading this post, get to know them by visiting their blog and/or following them on Instagram @frugal_beans. Why do you need an Emergency Fund? An Emergency Fund is fast becoming an integral part of the common budget. To give your […]
How to Save Money and See Results!
The three initial steps to getting your money in order, in my opinion, are saving, debt management, and investing. And in that order. That does not mean you can only do one at a time but your focus shouldn’t be on investing if you don’t have any savings. Why is saving money so important? Where […]
New Financial Update – Q1 2021 Results
I think a quarterly review is in order. It is important to take the time to look over your plans to make sure the decisions you made months ago still align with where you want your finances to go today. So in this post, I’ll go over my financial picture thus far in 2021. As […]
I Did Uber Eats for a Week – Learn How to Best Use It to Actually Make Money
So what made this New Jersey nurse hop in her car and do Uber Eats? No, I wasn’t because I was hard up for cash. Honestly, I found the concept of this side hustle idea intriguing and enticing. So in this post, I’ll share how I got started, how I maximized this income opportunity, the […]
