Considering it is now almost October, I suppose it is time for me to finish up my August spending update. Just like the previous month, I really didn’t feel like taking the time to go through everything in this detail, but it’s important. Our finances look so different since I started tracking in 2017. We…
I've been blogging for close to two and a half years now, and the personal finance community (and this blog) have become an integral part of my life. I couldn't imagine when I got started that a blog could possibly have such an impact on my whole life, but it absolutely has been. And a…
While I will never argue with the importance of an emergency fund - preferably a decently sized one - I also find my non-monetary emergency fund to be huge in terms of my peace of mind when it comes to finances. This sort of "fund" will look different for everyone, but in some ways I…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
September was a month of quite a few travel expenses, from FinCon (both 2019 travel and my 2020 ticket) to the weekend in Gig Harbor for a wedding, and Leavenworth for my grandmother's birthday. Between all of that, I only spent two of the five weekends in September at home, and it showed with our…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
It's hard to believe we are already almost at the end of the third quarter of 2019. Didn't we just go to Hawaii? Apparently not, considering that was almost eight months ago now. That said, we have definitely packed quite a bit into the first nine months of the year. Most of it has been…
It's Sunday and I'm headed home from my first ever FinCon. While I had started blogging before the conference in 2017, I wasn't enmeshed in the community in a real way at that point and didn't really think about going. 2018, however, was a very different story. I still didn't go - much because it…
Let's just say that this has been an expensive summer. Between vet bills, backyard fence replacement, and spending for future vacations, we have spent significantly more money than is average for us. That said, for July in specific, we knew it was going to be expensive because of our dog's surgery, so we spent accordingly…