Handling The Hard Stuff

Tag: Budget

  • Wanting wealth is not a bad thing!

    This feels like such a controversial statement in a knee-jerk kind of way. I have spent my career helping the underprivileged and working with non-profits and I come from an area with a lot of poverty. My parents were civil servants and no one in my family ever encouraged wealth or prosperity. I was raised,…

  • 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…

  • Every Little Bit Helps

    It’s easy to get overwhelmed by a project or a goal or a wish. This time of year our grand plans for making 2023 the best year ever may be falling by the wayside. Bit New Years resolutions are losing momentum at this point of the year. We aren’t seeing the results of our hard…

  • 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…

  • 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…