When I hear Order of Operations, I feel like I’m sitting in Mrs. Shipley’s seventh grade math class. She taught us to Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally – parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. That’s the order you attack a complicated math problem. Now, I’m terrible at math, but more than 20 years later,…
Every since I was a little girl, my grandfather told me “you can be anything you want to be when you grow up.” I can actually hear his voice in my head saying it now. And while I’m not sure my parents ever said things the exact same way, it was always implied in my…
Do you know your score? 814, you? Could you imagine if you picked up folks up a bar using your credit score? Oh, him? He’s a 650. No way. That guy is a smokin’ hot 780. He can buy me a drink any day. And then pay it off on time next time his credit…
Recently, I read another blogger’s money story – and I always find them pretty fascinating! I mean, it’s a big part of why we blog about what we blog about and our own outlooks on money and life. Several years ago, I wrote my debt story. I was finishing up paying off $30,00 in student…
At the beginning of the summer I had the brilliant idea of running a 5K with some friends from college. Last summer, my cousin asked me to do the same thing and I blew her off because running seemed pointlessly miserable to me. Running still seems pointlessly miserable to me, but for some reason I…
I am awful at budgeting. Seriously awful. Mostly because I’ve been pretty lucky to not have to worry too much about money most of my life, I sort of just have an idea of what’s happening in my checking account and try to keep my expenditures under that. Once in a while I fail and…
In my continuing research to become less of a financial moron, I’ve stumbled upon Investopedia. It’s popped up in a few different places on the web as a site to check out, so I finally did. Overall, I’m not super excited about their articles. I don’t feel their website is really clear and easy to…
I haven’t actually forgotten about this blog, the reason I haven’t posted actually goes back to the premise under which I started this blog. It’s that I have no idea what I’m doing and would love, love, love to not spend my retirement under a bridge, in a cardboard box, eating hobo beans. I tried…