5 Ways to Boost Your Financial Wellness This Year
I recently received an email from a friend and fellow financial wellness expert on how to boost your financial wellness and lower your money stress. I loved these 5 tips so I asked her...
Category: Budgeting & Money Management
Why an Occasional Expense Fund is more important than an Emergency Fund – Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of this post we talked about the importance of an Occasional Expense Account and the initial set up. If you missed that post, you can find it here: Part 1 of...
Why an Occasional Expense Fund is more important than an Emergency Fund – Part 1 of 2
If there is one missing piece I have seen in the process of creating a budget or spending plan, it is planning for those irregular expenses. We all know what an emergency fund is...
Top 3 Reasons why Having an Emergency Fund Makes Sense
Let’s face it, there are many good reasons to have an emergency fund. I am going to focus on the top 3. Emergency funds break your dependency on credit! We treat credit as our...
Saving Money on your “last-minute” Christmas Spending
I know it is just under a week to Christmas Day and these tips may seem to be a bit late, but for anyone doing last-minute shopping, there is something here for you too!...
Backpacks and Chicken
If you have been following me on social media then you likely know that I am a BIG fan of tracking your expenses. There are so many benefits and only one disadvantage. The disadvantage:...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves…and Why We Need to Stop
It’s easy to justify just about anything if you want to badly enough. When it comes to our finances there are a handful of stories we all tell ourselves to take away the guilt...
New Year! New Finances!! New Method?
I decided to do something a little different for my “Kick off the Year Post”. I decided to consult the cards. “The Cards” being my trustworthy Wisdom of the Oracle Deck. When I am...
What is the best way to track expenses?
If you follow my blog, or any of my other social media activities, you will definitely pick up on a common theme … I am a huge advocate on tracking expenses. Why? Because I...
6 Easy Steps to Spring Clean your Finances
Ah! Spring! Such a wonderful time of renewal. You just feel like your coming alive! The heck with New Years Resolutions, spring is a much more motivating time to make changes. So why not...
