Learning to talk openly with your kids about your own finances is one of the best ways to give them the financial education that they’re not getting anywhere else. Keeping finances hush-hush does more harm than good. If you don’t teach your kids about finances, they’ll likely have to get their education from the school of […]
January 2024 Family Budget Update
We’re back with a fresh 2024 budget! It might look very similar to last year, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?! While the general budget hasn’t changed a lot with the new year, we have a new goal to work on. I can’t overstate the importance of setting financial goals. If you […]
December 2023 Family Budget Update
Talking about personal finance shouldn’t be taboo! That’s why we share our real budget with you every month. In fact, talking about budgeting is a great way to learn how to budget Our budget will look different than yours, and that’s how it should be. Our needs, values, and priorities are different, so it only […]
Cost Breakdown for Our Epic San Diego Trip
You loved hearing about what we spent on our 3-week cross county road trip, our 10-day Washington DC trip, and our Yellowstone Family Trip so I know you’re going to love hearing the financial (and fun) details of our family’s San Diego trip. For Christmas 2022, we did something we’ve never done before. Instead of […]
Money talk without the taboo. Here’s our family’s real budget from last month.
Where did you learn how to budget? Did your parents teach you? Did you learn in school? Of all of the really impactful things you could learn in high school, I think money management is near the top. Yet most people don’t learn about personal finance in high school. I know I didn’t! The informal […]
5 Habits that Helped Us Pay Off $144,000 in Debt in 3 Years
When we started paying off our law school debt, we owed over $130,000. At the time, my husband was making $39,000 before taxes and I was bringing in some side income with my Etsy shop. We set an audacious stretch goal of being debt-free in three years, but when we calculated how much we needed […]
Want to see everything our family spent and earned last month? Here are all the details.
Talking about personal finance shouldn’t be taboo! That’s why we share our real budget with you every month. In fact, talking about budgeting is a great way to learn how to budget Our budget will look different than yours, and that’s how it should be. Our needs, values, and priorities are different, so it only […]
Sweet Potato Soufflé– Our Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish
One of our most favorite parts of Thanksgiving dinner? Sweet potato souffle! While it’s not the healthiest version of sweet potatoes for your Thanksgiving spread, this sweet potato souffle is absolutely the tastiest. And let’s face it, covering your sweet potatoes with marshmallows and brown sugar, like many people do, isn’t healthy either. But sweet […]
Budgeting gets much better than Mint anyway. We switched to YNAB nine years ago and haven’t looked back!
If you are one of the 3.6 million people who uses Mint for managing your personal finances, you might be panicking with the news that Mint will be shutting down completely by January and is hoping to push users to Credit Karma. As a long-time user of Mint, I can tell you that budgeting gets […]
3 Inexpensive household items we use to save hundreds of dollars each month
The internet is full of “money-saving” products with all sorts of promises to make your life easier while keeping cash in your pocket. I’m sure some of those gadgets are great and for the right people would make a financial difference, but that’s not what I want to talk about. Today I want to share […]
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