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How to Prep for Your First Meeting with a Financial Advisor
When you’re trying to plan for the future and make sure you’re choosing the right financial path for yourself and/or your family, you may want some expert help. And while there are a number of financial services available to you, a financial advisor may be the best...
5 Tips for Dealing with Financial Envy
Social media is a great tool for networking, discovering new ideas, and staying in touch with people we care about. But it can also be a significant source of stress, one that is damaging to your self-esteem. One of the other things that social media can cause?...
How to Support Family While Keeping Your Own Finances Secure
For some people, “supporting their family” goes beyond providing for themselves, their partner, and/or their children. Supporting family sometimes means caring for ill or aging family members. It sometimes includes helping other family members who are out of work or...
Simple Tips to Make Saving Easier (for Those Who Struggle to Save Money)
In a 2019 survey, nearly 70% of Americans said that they have less than $1,000 in a savings account. That number increased from 58% in 2018. What’s the deal? Why is it hard for some to save money? Living paycheck to paycheck can get in the way of saving money. The...
Voting with Your Dollars
Most of us think of voting as what you do once a year, or every four years. It involves a ballot, sometimes waiting in long lines to cast your vote, and your candidate either wins or they don’t. But that’s not the only way you can vote, and you don’t have to wait for...
What to Do If You’ve Lost Your Job
Losing your job sucks. There’s no other way to put it. When it’s unexpected — no warnings, no sit-down meetings with management to talk about your performance — it can feel even worse. What do you do? How do you get back on your feet? Be prepared to feel a lot of...
Are You Financially Ready to Have Kids?
“When you know, you know.”“You’ll never be completely ready.”“You’ll start seeing babies everywhere.” Do these sound familiar? If you’ve asked your friends and family how they knew they were ready to have children, they might have given you one of these answers. ...
How to Think Bigger About Your Money
“I worry about every little penny.” “I am aware of every bill I pay.” “I can’t really think long-term right now, when every day I need to really think about how to get by now.” Sound familiar? It’s common and totally understandable to get caught up in the small...
The Power of Yet on Your Personal Finances
Do you think you’re bad with money? When it comes to budgeting, investing, or saving, do you feel like you’ll “never get it right” or “never understand any of it completely”? Nobody wants to be bad with money; everyone wants to have a successful financial plan. So,...
5 Things I’ve Learned From Using the BudgetingBlocks™
The idea for the BudgetingBlocks™ system came to me when clients of my financial planning firm were struggling with their budgeting system. Spreadsheets, envelopes, tracking apps; they tried it all. Then, one day, I thought “Why not give them something they can play...
Every Budget Has a Story
“Budget.” What does that word mean to you? A budget helps one person stay on track when buying groceries for their family. A budget means watching expenses in order to save up for retirement for another person. A budget helps someone else pay down their high-interest...
Planting the Seeds for Future Financial Goals
If you want something to grow and bear fruit that you can enjoy later, you have to plant your seeds and tend to them now. The best way to have a big, lush financial garden very much the same.
How You Show Your Love With Money
As Valentine’s Day nears, it’s time to talk about one thing: money. Just kidding. We’ll get to that part in a bit. What we actually want to talk about is love. More specifically, what your “love language” is.
Finding Your Budgeting System in 2020
Budgeting. It’s important and everyone should be doing it, except… you haven’t done it yet. Sound familiar?
Spending Money Without Shame
Here at Everyday Money, we really want to set a counter standard to the more common personal finance messages out there. We want to let you know you’re not messing up with your money.
It’s Time to Celebrate Living Your (Money) Values
It’s easy to look at your finances and pinpoint mistakes you’ve made or ways you can do better. But we think there’s another side to personal finance that doesn’t get talked about enough: what is worth celebrating.
How to Manage Financial Expectations During the Holidays
For most of us, this is the most expensive time of year — full of “expectations”. That’s why it’s important to think about how to manage financial expectations now, so you can have a smoother holiday season later.
Why You Should Consider Investing in Experiences, Not Things
Having money and spending money are two different things. When we spend money on experiences instead of material items, though, we tend to feel much better about our spending, and we are happier about it.
Recession-Proof Your Personal Finances
As a Certified Financial Planner™, I know this is always a concern about a recession for many people, so knowing we cannot prevent a recession, what can we do to properly prepare?
How Much Money is ‘Enough’?
How much is “enough money”? It’s a question that plenty of people have tried to answer, but the truth is that “enough” is different for everyone.
The Truth About Women & Money
In our work with couples, we see it time and time again: women playing second-fiddle to their partner when it comes to money. But there’s one thing we really want to make clear: women are good with money, too. There are statistics to back us up.