Handling The Hard Stuff

Category: Finances

  • Adulting 101

    It’s that time of year when we all decide this is gonna be the year we get our s$#@ together. Good for you. Good for us. But holy crap is it overwhelming! Where to begin?? I don’t know that I could keep any of this stuff up on a daily basis for an extended period…

  • Budgets Are a Girls’ Best Friend

    When BF and I first started dating we were not on the same page financially. He’d spent most of his twenties having adventures and odd jobs and hadn’t thought much about retirement. I spent my twenties getting into boatloads of education debt and starting my own business during a recession. I stressed about little else…

  • “If You Wanna Be Somebody,

    If you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention” -Sister Act 2 This has been a recurring theme in my life in various seasons and stages. It’s an important one. We’ve stopped paying attention. I am super guilty of this. I’ll waste hours on Instagram reels. I’ll go down a Pinterest rabbit…

  • Thought before Action If Time

    This is my mom’s mantra and I hear it in my head all the freaking time. But it’s pretty freaking useful too. There are absolutely times in life when we just have to make moves and go with our gut. We have to deal with what the world’s throwing at us. Do your best, keep…