Personal Finance 101: Where to Start With Your Money

Personal Finance 101: Where to Start With Your Money

There can be so much conflicting information on personal finance out there. Who do you listen to? How do you get started if you’ve never taken care of your finances regularly before? This wealth of advice at your fingertips seems helpful, but it can be too much of a...
The Pros and Cons of Using Percentages in Your Budget

The Pros and Cons of Using Percentages in Your Budget

If you’re totally new to budgeting, you may have looked up beginner’s budgeting guides online and noticed something called “budget percentages.” Using budget percentages involves assigning a percentage out of one hundred to each category in your budget. Housing gets...
How to Make Sure Your Budgeting Sticks

How to Make Sure Your Budgeting Sticks

While around 60% of us make New Year’s resolutions, only about 8% of us achieve them. Yikes. With that not-so-motivating statistic in mind, how are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions, if you’ve made any?  With everything we all experienced in 2020, it’s...
Our Top 4 Tips for Budgeting With Uncertainty

Our Top 4 Tips for Budgeting With Uncertainty

Happy New Year! You know what the turn of the calendar means…it’s time to start a new budget for 2021. If you struggled with budgeting the past few months because of COVID-19, you’re definitely not alone. The uncertainty many of us faced — and continue to face...
Set Your Budget (and Yourself) Up for Success in 2021

Set Your Budget (and Yourself) Up for Success in 2021

After what we’ve all experienced in 2020, many are dreading the thought of budgeting in 2021. With COVID-19 still affecting the population worldwide, how can we even begin to plan for the months ahead? While you’ll need to be a bit more flexible than usual with your...