A Story About Some Pet Fraud

A Story About Some Pet Fraud

Why is customer service so often as difficult to navigate as possible? Let me share a story about Chewy and PayPal and the ridiculously frustrating $1000+ I have been chasing for two weeks now. A few weeks ago, I woke up to a bunch of emails from my Chewy account saying I had purchased $1034…

Money Dysmorphia and the 21st Century Gal

Money Dysmorphia and the 21st Century Gal

As a follow up to my post the other day, I was left thinking about how I was sort of regretting not paying for a more expensive apartment to the tune of an extra £400-500 to enable making going to the gym easier. And then in the same paragraph groaning about the £4 to take…

Motivation and the Pandemic

Motivation and the Pandemic

Ya’ll, I sat for a while trying to figure out what to write about today. I have to be honest with you. I don’t have a lot of motivation these days. The majority of goals I usually have are largely on hold thanks to the pandemic. It’s pretty much survival mode over here. I’d actually…

Breaking The Law vs. An Honest Living

(Image Credit) It can be easy to be drawn into ventures that involve breaking the law. Money can often look much easier to get your hands on if you’re willing to break the rules, and a lot of people end up going down this route when they feel like they don’t have any other choice.…

Mistakes Gig Workers and Artists Make

Mistakes Gig Workers and Artists Make

I think the number one mistake we all make at times is letting producers and hiring companies use our passion against us. It’s easy, especially at the beginning of our careers, to feel so thankful that we get paid anything to do what we love, that we accept less than we’re worth. This is also…

Are We In Perpetual Productivity Overload?

Are We In Perpetual Productivity Overload?

I read this great post on productivity porn over at Bitches Get Riches a little while ago and I have been mulling it over ever since. I flipping love productivity porn. It started early. Hints from Heloise was literally my favorite part of the newspaper as a kid. Who knows why 9 year old me…

Coastal Eyeglasses: A Review

Coastal Eyeglasses: A Review

So, after an approximately 4 year run, my old glasses from GlassesShop.com finally bit the dust. I have to say, they held up pretty well. I had gotten them for free in return for a review, but if I had to buy them myself, they would’ve cost $32.90.   They weren’t the most comfortable after…

How To Figure Out If You’re Wasting Your Time

How To Figure Out If You’re Wasting Your Time

To be honest, I don’t have a clear answer on this yet. In the personal finance world, there’s a pretty simple calculation that applies. If you can make more per hour than the activity costs, you are likely wasting your time. For example, if you’re fretting over whether or not a cleaning service is worth…

Quarantine Spending Habits Expose

Am I the only one who has bought some weird stuff during quarantine? I mean, maybe I’m usually too busy to fall down into some of the weird online shopping wells that I’ve fallen into during the last few months, but the fact is – some odd items have bought. They have not all been…

Misadventures in Side Hustling

Misadventures in Side Hustling

With my university contract coming to a close at the end of June, I’ve had an eye out for any side hustles that can prop up my income until the theaters start to reopen. I recently received an email through the full school distribution email about a $400 a week part time gig through LDS…

The Spending Dam

I know I’m beating a dead horse here, but that’s sort of how I figure out stuff financially (in case ya’ll haven’t figured that out over the last seven years of this finance journey), but I’m still fixating on the $24 a day. I went a little off the rails today. I started out the…

Money Things I Wish I Understood Better

Here are some money things that still puzzle me. Mortgages Man, I thought buying a house wouldn’t be so complicated. How naïve, was I? Mortgages are wildly confusing. Not only how to find a lender but what you need to qualify for one, what the different types mean, etc., etc. I mean. Ugh. What the…

The Definition of Insanity…

Albert Einstein is often credited for this famous saying: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”  Today I figured I’d spill the beans on a personal finance blogger fail of mine. I am super susceptible to Pinterest advertising.  Like, it’s a problem. On the plus…

Food Is My Worst Enemy on So Many Levels

Over the years I’ve read and even written a few posts about how finance and physical fitness are so similar. Lately I’ve been really unhappy with my weight, my energy levels and my perpetually upset stomach. I keep coming back to the idea that personal finance and physical fitness are so similar that I should actually…

The Problem With Giveaways

I have a confession to make. I kind of love sorting through and entering low entry giveaways. There used to be this great site (Tightwad in Utah), where they were compiled regularly, but the site owner stopped amassing the low entry giveaways and now it’s become a lot more of a project. I mean, there…

My Financial Mistakes

One of the fun things about going back to school for accounting is that a lot of the scholarships I’ve been applying for are very similar to writing a blog post. I applied for this one last semester and they asked what my biggest financial mistake was – I bet a few long time readers…