Profile I am thirty years old and the first full month of my 30’s didn’t go so badly. It still might be the year of Mel. I work as an assistant production manager and, my yearly salary is $53,560. Saving & Spending: The Good The good has been the $600 that went into my IRA…
Profile I am thirty years old and this is the first accountability update of my thirties. I am so going to nail this decade. It’s the year of Mel. I work as an assistant production manager and to start out the year of Mel, my yearly salary increased to $53,560. Not a huge jump, but I’m…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old and this is my last accountability update of my twenties. Yikes! I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. Saving & Spending June was a pretty steady month money wise. Due to a death in the family, I was actually home for about a…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. Saving & Spending Ugh. This is a month I don’t really ever want to repeat. Financially, it’s actually been a good one. It was a 5 payday instead of 4 payday month and I wound up…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, which is occasionally awesome for picking up side hustle work, since there’s just so much stuff here. Saving & Spending Can I just say that when checked out my editorial calendar to…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, aka the most expensive place on earth, and am still often wondering why on earth I left my last job where room and board were part of my salary. Saving & Spending…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, aka the most expensive place on earth, and am often wondering why on earth I left my last job where room and board were part of my salary. Saving & Spending To…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I guess my budget skills are doing ok, since I managed to not bankrupt myself so far. Saving & Spending So this month I learned that monthly bills are stressful and I am super impressed and…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I am about to acquire a ton of bills for the first time in my life when I move into my own apartment in January, so I suppose I better brush up on my budgeting skills.…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an associate production manager and my yearly salary is $38,000. I live on a train most of the year and stay with my parents for free during my vacations, so I have no rent or utilities to pay other than a $50 a month internet fee…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an associate production manager and my yearly salary is $38,000. I live on a train most of the year and stay with my parents for free during my vacations, so I have no rent or utilities to pay other than a $50 a month internet fee…
The other day we talked about money psychology because it’s so important to get a firm grasp on your money hang ups as you start to delve into sorting out your financial state. Once you start to see why you have the issues you do, you can begin to resolve them (honestly, you can begin…
I recently came across an awesome website called Consumerism Commentary. It was started by a guy named Luke where he essentially just kept logging his net worth as an accountability tool. After several years, it gained popularity and now he has several other people doing the same thing and several professionals who provide commentary on…
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…