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If you are about to graduate high school or are planning to further your education, spring can be a very stressful time of year while you wait for those College and University acceptance (and rejection) letters. Will you be accepted into the school of your choice? And the program you want to be in? How will you decide if you get accepted into multiple schools? Can you even afford to...
Throughout this blog and social media, I’ve been pretty open about the fact that I really struggled after being laid off back in April of 2014. How I struggled for over 2 years to find a full-time job. How working a part-time, minimum wage job in my 30s affected my mental health. And, of course, how I struggled financially after my personal income was cut by over 75%. But I...
As a personal finance blogger, this is a bit embarrassing to admit. But I recently made a mistake. A mistake that cost me $425. Like many of us millennials, I’m struggling to pay back my student loan. The monthly payment they expect me to make is close to $600. (Which, in case you were wondering, is more than 25% of my monthly income.) It is not an amount that I...
When I started My Life, I Guess… I didn’t really think about where this blog would take me. I’ve had several blogs before that were read by only a handful of people. I assumed that this one would be no different. My life was at a crossroad and I thought that blogging about it was the right outlet for me at the time. It was just another blog. A place...
What would you do if you had $10,000? You’ve probably been asked this before and daydreamed about what your answer would be. Would you take a trip somewhere? Pay down your debt? Buy something that you’ve always wanted? Now let me ask you this: What would you actually do if you had $10,000? I bet you wouldn’t actually do any of these things. At least not to the extent that...