Christmas Eve and Christmas are those days when all the things that money can’t buy come together for me. Which is kind of odd, because there is definitely a tree with a bunch of presents piled under it. But when I think back over thirty two years of Christmas, I mostly just remember togetherness. I…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. I make $700 per week and a $300 weekly stipend. Saving & Spending This month man. I don’t even know. This was the hardest month of work I’ve ever done. We did three weeks straight…
The holidays are usually a great time to think about the bigger picture things in life and reflect on what really matters. And while consumerism runs rampant during this time too, we mostly try to look past that into the deeper meanings of all these winter holidays. The thing is though, financial stability can give…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. I make $700 per week and a $300 weekly stipend. Saving & Spending October wasn’t my most impressive spending month. I hit all my financial goals for the year! And I bought some extra stock!…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. I make $700 per week and a $300 weekly stipend. Saving & Spending September might be trying to kill me. Or this tour is – as I type this going into day 7 of 16-20…
I’ll level with you guys, I’ve been in a bit of a life funk the last few months. I have three best friends from high school. One got married last weekend, another is having a baby in 3 weeks and the other just bought their first house. And me… well, take your choice of the…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. We’re currently in rehearsals, which is paid out as a stipend in two payments in September ($2,000 each payment) and once we actually hit the road, I’ll make $700 a week and get a $300…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Stage Manager for Into the Woods JR at a regional theater in Virginia. I make $375 a week, which comes out to $317.16 after taxes, and I’m staying in theater provided housing for free. This gig is five weeks long and ends the first…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am the Production Stage Manager/Production Manager for The Marriage of Figaro! I received a $3,000 stipend at the end of my contract (and am a dork who read her contract wrong and thought it was $500 more but it wasn’t) and a $300 travel stipend. Saving…
Personal finance and fitness actually have a lot in common. No one really wants to do any of the work involved, but we all want the results. And I’m exactly the same. For those who don’t know, the Whole 30 is a 30 day clean eating challenge. Here are the rules (taken from the Whole…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am the Production Stage Manager/Production Manager for The Marriage of Figaro! I will receive a $3,500 stipend at the end of my contract and a $300 travel stipend (hopefully that check should turn up by the first week of July). Saving & Spending After finishing up…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am the Stage Manager/Lighting Director for Clifford the Big, Red Dog! I make $700 a week and receive a $30/day per diem. Saving & Spending I have made my financial life infinitely more complicated this month. So figuring out my net worth is really a joy.…
I totally forgot that April is Financial Literacy Month! Probably because every month is Financial Literacy Month here at brokeGIRLrich. Turns out that today is specifically Financial Fitness Day, a phrase sent over to me in an email from CO-OP Financial Services. I usually ignore these types of emails, but they were smart about it…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am the Stage Manager/Lighting Director for Clifford the Big, Red Dog! I make $700 a week and receive a $30/day per diem. Saving & Spending This month, while totally average, just felt like such a let down after all the big wins of February. Why can’t…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am the Stage Manager/Lighting Director for Clifford the Big, Red Dog! I make $700 a week and receive a $30/day per diem. I also finished up Potted Sherlock the first week of this month and am now on the hunt for something to do this summer!…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am an Assistant Stage Manager on tour with Potted Sherlock, a hilarious romp through all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories in 80 minutes! The show is a month long and has a $4,000 stipend along with a $35/day per diem. However, since a bunch of our shows…
I was so excited about nailing all of my goals in 2015 that I didn’t really start thinking about 2016 until it had already begun and because I strongly believe in the power of the list and tracking my goals, here’s this year’s resolutions. Contribute $1,000 to my Emergency Savings Account – the overall…
Profile I am thirty one years old and technically, I am still the stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! Although this month has been month one of a two month unpaid layoff. I worked as a stagehand where I went to college for…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! I make $700 a week and get a $30 per diem for each travel day. I pay no rent and have about $210 in monthly bills.…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! I make $700 a week and get a $30 per diem for each travel day. I pay no rent and have about $210 in monthly bills.…
A few days ago, I wrote about the frugality snowball. I was thinking about it because I was trying to figure out how to cram the end of my 2015 savings goals into my budget, despite the fact that I don’t totally know how much money I’ll make in December. The funny thing was, that…
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Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! I also just left my job as stage manager for Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (if you live in the tri-state area and like weird immersive theater, there…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager for an Off-Broadway show called Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (if you live in the tri-state area, buy a ticket and support us some Saturday – we extended into the fall!). I have no rent and no real bills. I now make $175 a…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager for an Off-Broadway show called Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (if you live in the tri-state area, buy a ticket and support us some Saturday this summer!). I have no rent and no real bills. I actually got a $25 raise per show this…