On Personal Finance and Stewardship
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)"
A new year is coming soon, which means new financial goals! It’s time to check in on how we did this year and look to what we can accomplish next… Continue reading "Our 2018 Financial Goals"
We’ve used Mint, Intuit’s free online budgeting software, for over seven years. I used it before Mr. Steward and I got married, and it has been our go-to app since.… Continue reading "Why We’re Breaking Up With Mint"
I’ve written a lot lately about my difficulties reconciling myself with my current entry-level salary, and some of the tricks I’ve used to make myself feel better about it. There… Continue reading "Thoughts on Making Less Than My Husband"