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5 Secrets For Keeping Your New Year's Resolution

As the year winds to a close, it’s a common time for contemplation and self-questioning. This is when you may ask yourself questions...

Money *Can* Buy Happiness - If You Know How to Spend It

We’re often told that money can’t buy happiness. The best things in life are free, after all, and money only works if you take it...

6 Ways to End the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle

Personal finance literature can be full of the kind of simple-yet-unhelpful advice that no one knows how to take—things like, you should...

Making Mindful Spending Decisions

Well-entrenched spending habits can be difficult to shake. If you’re in the habit of impulse buying, paying for convenience, or engaging...

Making Budgeting Fun

Last week, we talked about finding the budgeting routine that will work for you. But that’s a little like finding the flossing routine...

How to Find a Budgeting System That Works for You

Our culture often teaches us that there is one right way to do things. This is a common issue with personal finance advice, where experts...

Combatting Financial Mindlessness

When purchasing art supplies for my most recent art class, I bought every item on the supply list instead of looking through the supplies...

A Year of #OneGoodThing

On October 27, 2018, a gunman opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing 11 congregants. October 27...

What Did Your Parents Teach You About Money?

This is a picture of my dad with LO in 2010, when LO was no more than a few months old. LO asked me about this photo this morning, and we...

What Does Your Money Want?

If you start asking what your money wants, you'll also start making better money choices.

Opt Out of Chase's Forced Arbitration

If you are a Chase credit card customer, you probably received an email on May 31 with the subject line Important information regarding...