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Lifestyle Creep
Oof. Boyfriend and I have resolved that we’re keeping a budget this year. So at the end of each month we review our spending and enter it into a spreadsheet. And it is painful. We spend so much freaking money on such dumb stuff! Our biggest expenditure is Amazon. Now granted, we buy some grocery/pantry…
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Let’s Talk about Money Honey
My mid-life crisis manifested in a fear about my financial future. Realistically, I’m probably going to be fine. But at least part of that is due to my new-found understanding of (and fascination with) finances. If you’re anything like me, you’ve never been comfortable talking about money. I grew up solidly middle class, surrounded by…
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Relationships Aren’t about Power and Control
Trigger Warning: This post is about relationships and abuse and if you are particularly sensitive to those conversations this may not be for you right now. There are lots of different ways to talk about toxic relationships. That’s a large spectrum on which we see relationships with workload imbalances and relationships with physical beatings. Every…
Handling The Hard Stuff 