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 »

Best investment strategies during a pandemic The novel coronavirus has completely upended the world economy. In a matter of weeks, everyone was using online video conference software such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. (Now people are even talking about how to throw the best Zoomsgiving on November 26th). At the same time, other industries were Read more »

How to Invest On Your Own Without a Financial Advisor Do you work with a financial advisor? Do you believe that he or she has your best interests at heart? If your financial advisor has a “fiduciary” duty, he or she must act in your best interest. But did you know that many advisors don’t Read more »

Accumulate Assets and Avoid Liabilities: Best Assets to Buy I think everyone wants to have a secure financial future. Even if someone doesn’t want to get “rich”, I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t be happier knowing that they had enough money for a roof over their head and food in their stomach. Eventually, we Read more »

Welcome to a side-hustle themed issue of Monday Night Finace. 6 Reasons Why You Need a Side Hustle Even if You Don’t Need Extra Money Have you heard the phrase side hustle? It can mean a lot of different things to different people. Typically, it involves some sort of self-employment outside of your nine-to-five. For Read more »

Generational Wealth: What it is, Why it Matters and How to Build it! Generational wealth sounds like a serious, stuffy term thrown around at country clubs. Perhaps reading the words “generational wealth” made you think of trust fund babies. Or perhaps you envisioned Richard and Emily Gilmore sending Rory to Yale. However, generational wealth impacts Read more »