Family & Money

Come To The Dark Side: How To Get Your S.O. On Board With Managing Finances

January 18, 2017

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Inside: My S.O. and I were on completely different financial pages. Here’s how I brought him round to the dark side (mua ha ha) so we’re managing finances together. I was halfway inside of a giant, steaming, coffin-sized metal autoclave that I was cleaning out when I had my financial epiphany. I’d just started…

Five Bad Financial Lessons From My Parents

January 14, 2016

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Who wanted to listen to their parents growing up? Not me, that’s for sure! Now that I’m older though, I can see that my parents taught me many wise lessons about how to manage my money. After all, they had made their fair share of mistakes, and they were insistent that I not repeat…

Five Great Financial Lessons From My Parents

January 7, 2016

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Growing up, I sometimes had a tenuous relationship with my parents (who didn’t?). Many of my memories about my parents involve them standing above and lecturing me. They’d wag their fingers about how I should do things a certain way because they said so. Naturally, I didn’t pay much mind to these little lectures…