Heads up! Mint by Intuit will be signing off in 2024. While we’re bidding farewell to this old financial friend, it’s the perfect moment to welcome new budgeting tools that can help us stay on top of our finance game. 1. Empower (the new face of Personal Capital) Empower is our top pick (and personal daily use […]
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We’re continuing financial literacy month with a second guest blog post! Both of our posts this month focus on themes of how we deal with money in partnerships. How we intertwine (or not) or finances in our long-term relationships has significant implications for our personal financial wellness throughout our lifetimes. As such, we want to
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April is Financial Literacy Month! So, we’re going to talk about financial security, especially protecting yourself when you earn less than your partner. This great post emphasizes how important it is for lower-income partners to take measures to protect themselves financially in a relationship. Unforeseen circumstances (and foreseen statistically, but sometimes hard to accept individual
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Grab your Facebook Detox Tracker here and follow along with us as we ditch Facebook for a week out of every month and reset our mental health and muscle memory!
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We’re all pretty burned out after years of a pandemic. How do we deal with it?
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PrepperFI 2022 Re-Introduction I wrote the original portion of this post back in the summer of 2018 for Tread Lightly Retire Early. If you like this post, aside from checking out all of WPF where we sprinkle these interests, check the Women’s Personal Finance (Women on FIRE) Facebook group, as well as the PrepperFI Facebook group that
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The media paints the picture of gender transition a certain way. Someone, maybe a Jenner or Wachowski, announces to the world that they’re not who they appear to be on the outside. The “man” disappears, and a woman emerges some time (and possibly a few surgeries) later. One more “man trapped in a woman’s body”
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Vulnerability time. I don’t talk about “me” a lot here. Writers Note: What we share on our 62,000+ member Facebook community for Women’s Personal Finance is generally meant for that audience. For 62,000 people, we’re surprisingly tight-knit, and we like to maintain that community bubble. But, sometimes, there are things worth sharing with our wider
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To pull some lines from our post today, “Although money is not emotional, my attachment to spending was.” If you’re in debt, you’ve probably got some fairly deep feelings about it. Even if you’re not in debt, the emotions you have around money and spending could be leading you there. If open conversations about money
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So you decided you want to be a stay at home parent? First off, congrats! Parenting is such a personal choice, and all parents need more cheerleaders. You’re doing great. Those of you that choose to keep working… the same goes for you. You’re also doing great! No one should shame anyone for any way
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