On Personal Finance and Stewardship
By the end of this month, I will have worked five of the last nine weekends. Before you think I am a workaholic, let it be known that this is… Continue reading "I Have Worked Five of the Last Nine Weekends"
I’ve wanted to share this story, but debated about whether to do so. Ultimately I decided there’s no point to blogging anonymously if I can’t share these tales to help… Continue reading "Your Company Is Never Your Friend: My Maternity Leave Story"
Recently, Mr. Steward and I finally started saving monthly for our two daughters’ college educations. Historically, I put cash we received from the baby shower and subsequent birthday money into… Continue reading "How We Are Saving for Our Children’s College Educations"
It’s that time again! Welcome to our quarterly net worth update. To see older updates, click here. As a reminder, Mr. Steward and I have wholly joint finances, so this… Continue reading "Net Worth Update Q1 2018: $159,730 (+$19,557)"
Squidge was born just shy of four months ago. Her arrival was fairly non-eventful and typical of American births. We had one “false” visit to the hospital, thanks to contractions… Continue reading "How Much It Costs to Have a Baby"
It has been a crazy year career-wise for me. To recap, I published my strategy for getting a promotion and busted my tail at work all of last year in… Continue reading "I Finally Got My (23%) Raise"
This post is one of many written for the #WomenRockMoney Movement, a collaboration of many personal finance bloggers for International Women’s Day. We’re trying to fight gender inequality in money.… Continue reading "Start Investing, Sister!"
I’m not being paid by anyone to write this, I just think this is a really cool option that I want to share with everyone. The state of higher education… Continue reading "Magical Unicorn College, aka Western Governors University"
Graduate degrees in the Humanities get a bad rap, especially in the personal finance community. I often read tongue-in-cheek references to “useless” Humanities degrees.Why, after all, would anyone spend the… Continue reading "So You’re Thinking of Going to Grad School in the Humanities"
I was going to wait until December 31, but not much should change between now and then apart from one more payday, so y’all get a Quarter 4 2017 net… Continue reading "Net Worth Update Q4 2017: 140,172.73 (+23,744.94)"