“Wow! I had way too much money to tide me over when I was unemployed and had bills to pay!” – said No One Ever By now, you may heard that it’s best to have 3-6 months of income in your emergency fund. You know your finances better than I ever will, but it seems […]
The silver linings are there if you look for them, even in a pandemic. We all know that COVID-19 has changed things in a fundamental way at a societal level. However, as with most things in life, its impact on individual lives is different depending on one’s access to money and resources. Over the past […]
Yes… it’s true. I’m a Single Person who loves to watch YouTube videos about people – almost always women – who do huge grocery shops and create videos about it. Since the Pandemic, and before I found these videos, I thought I was buying lots of food when I went to Costco. I’d buy two […]
I’m fascinated by people who oppose the idea of becoming financially independent. Personally, I think that this opposition is borne of the acronym FIRE. Most of us in the personal finance echo chamber know that this is an acronym for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It’s rather unfortunate that so many have twinned the two concepts […]
In a perfect world, you would have started saving with the first dollar that you ever received, i.e. birthday money, paper route money, graduation money. You would have gone to the bank – or your parent would have taken you – to the bank and you would have opened an account. Then you would have […]
Raise your hand if you’ve found some surprise money in your bank account this past month! While a great many people have lost their jobs, those who haven’t might have noticed that there’s definitely extra money in their bank accounts. This is called surprise money because most people are surprised by how much they normally […]
Do you want to know a secret about burnout? Here it is… almost everyone keeps burnout a secret from everyone else. I’ve attended many graduation ceremonies in my time, my own and those of loved ones. I’ve also had various mentors over the years. While they weren’t all great, they all taught me something valuable. […]
I’m sharing the following bit of wisdom respecting the mortgage cash account. I don’t think this is a particularly good option for mortgage-holders, but I’m trying to keep an open mind. The Mortgage Cash Account My bank holds the mortgage on my rental property. I make bi-weekly payments on my rental property because I want […]