Smart Christmas Money Saving Tips It’s Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season is fully upon us. Do you have a plan for your holiday shopping? What about a budget? Is the financial side of gift-giving stressing you out this year? Perhaps you are looking for ways to trim your spending. If that is the Read more »

Holiday Gifts: Managing Expectations with your Kids This week is Thanksgiving, which means it is the start of the traditional holiday shopping season. (Although to be fair, it seems to start immediately after Halloween nowadays). Do you typically have a plan for your Holiday shopping? Perhaps you have a dollar amount you normally spend for Read more »

Best App for Tracking Expenses and Receipts Are you an organized person? Or does your desk look like a Tasmanian devil has spun across it. Likewise- how good at you are finding things. Are your keys always on a hook by the door or do you have to run around the house like a cheetah Read more »

Thrift Store Shopping: 13 Things You Should Never Buy Do you shop at thrift stores? Buying used goods can be a great way to save money on things you use every day. Not only can you buy clothes or furniture for pennies on the dollar, but buying at thrift stores is great for the planet. Read more »

Where Is Your Financial Journey Taking You? Have you thought about what your retirement looks like? Do you want to move into a retirement community with chair yoga and water aerobics? Or do you envision yourself forging an independent existence on a homestead far from civilization. Maybe you haven’t thought about it at all? If Read more »