I often wonder how I got here: how I got to be 67, with so little to show for a lifetime of hard work, and while I’m in much better financial health than I was even 3 years ago, it is far from any notion of FIRE, and I still fear for my future.
As a serial shopper, I don’t think I could have processed the concept of not spending money. Shopping was equal parts sport and socializing.
Before I became a saver, I was a spender. Before I learned to buy nothing, I tried to purchase it all.
Information about abortion, organizations to support, and reproductive health discussions Post-Roe
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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When Darcy originally wrote this post for Women’s Personal Finance, Roe v. Wade had not yet been overturned. Perhaps the alternative timeline below would have felt more farfetched. But in the time since the Dobbs decision was finalized and the Supreme Court ruled that women are again officially second-class citizens here in the United States, …
Your Financial Emergency Fund is Not Enough: You Need an Energy Emergency Fund Historically, work-life balance hasn’t been my strong suit. That might explain how, in the spring of 2013, I found myself saying yes to another project at work. This project was roughly double the size of my current workload but had the potential …
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The First Ever Women’s Personal Finance Long Weekend Retreat 15 women. 4 days. One big house. Lots of laughs, deep conversations, and some money talk. We’d say new friendships too, but those friendships already existed – they just got even better in person. The WPF Long Weekend Retreat was open to our Insiders community only, …
This month, we’re switching it up a bit with our article for April. While we don’t shy away from the heavier stuff (see older posts about divorce, late term abortion and losing community as a trans person), we also aren’t opposed to some lighter, fun posts as well. For you Taylor Swift fans, this one …
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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” …
Someone asked “what’s holding you back from leaving your job” and I couldn’t really answer. The numbers worked, my partner and I had a dream that couldn’t be accomplished while holding a full-time job, but I still had a block. Two years into the pandemic, a lot of people are reconsidering what they want their …
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