Hello friends, I am really excited to bring you this guest post today from my friend Iris. We did a few contracts together out at sea years ago, when I was a cruise ship stage manager. While I’ve definitely got my land legs back, she married a sailor and is still part of ship life…
This post has been sponsored by Celebrity Cruises. You’ve read a lot of posts here about how much I loved working on cruise ships in my twenties. The thing is, with more than 500 days at sea, I can also say that cruising is a pretty awesome vacation too. There’s something so exciting about waking up…
Guys, do you know what I was doing 10 years ago today? I was embarking a cruise ship for the first time. I was reminded of this because we’re having some growing pains out here at the circus and trying to figure out more effective ways to orient new people and get them the proper…
I recently had dinner with a cousin I hadn’t seen in years and as we were catching up on our lives, she asked me what I’d learned from working on cruise ships. I was a little taken aback, especially since my cruise ship days ended more than five years ago, but as a I reflected…
So you just landed a job on a cruise ship and now you need to know what to bring with you, right? If this is your first time away from home for months at a time, trying to figure out how to pack is incredibly daunting. For my first contract, they told me they would…
I am in the thick of things here at FinCon. Since I’m having so much fun wrapped up in this personal finance and blogging overload, I thought I would share some blogger love and list the top 10 articles I’ve ever read. Some are terrific stand alone articles and others were the post that got me…
So you’re finally going on that dream vacation to the Caribbean or Europe or some random river cruise in the middle of nowhere. It’s going to be amazing. Maybe you splurged on a high end, inclusive line – if you did, these tips probably won’t help you much – but if you’re a financially savvy…
So, like I haven’t rambled about my weird adventures enough in the last two weeks… if you wanted to know more about what it was like to live on a cruise ship, check out my guest post over at Budgets Are Sexy. Some people do crazy things like recycle their toilet paper to save a…
Throughout my twenties, I had one really bad money “habit” – school. Education was held up to some crazy standard in my house as long as I could remember. If I didn’t get straight A’s, I would be grounded for the following marking period. There was no discussion of if I would go to college…
Struggling with debt? Here are a few methods to help get your Pete under control and on his way to the curb. 1.) Snowballer – this is Dave Ramsey’s extremely popular method of ranking all of your debts from highest to lowest, start with the lowest one and direct all the extra cash you can find…