Helping teachers master their money
https://youtu.be/2ciW42LAju8 Happy February, reader! In keeping with my plan to give you 12 money resolutions, one for each month of 2021, it’s time to get your goal for this month. Last month, you made your first budget. If you weren’t following along and that time, it’s actually the perfect time to catch up, because your [...]
https://youtu.be/asIkP9v65g4 Hey reader, I've been back in DC for two weeks now, and it feels great to be home. I've slowly gotten back into my old daily routine, and I also didn't realize how much I missed DC until I got back at the end of October. Vermont was like nothing I had ever seen-- [...]
https://youtu.be/DN-MPkpGxag Hey reader, Scorpio season is finally here, as is a very eventful November. Like every year, this month brings my birthday, anniversary, and Thanksgiving. This year, it also means a presidential election and a no-spend month, not to mention that we're still in the thick of unrest, a pandemic, and virtual learning. There's a [...]
https://youtu.be/1zyvGIOubfs Hey reader, In case you missed it, I spent the month of October in Vermont (in fact, I'm sitting in the AirBNB here in VT as I write this). I've been teaching virtually while enjoying one of the most gorgeous autumns I've ever experienced, and I'm happy to report that my net worth hasn't [...]
Hey reader! It's official-- it's been two years since I started this blog to share my personal money journey, get out of debt, and have a personal hobby during my difficult first year of teaching. I went back to read last year's post, and was struck by how much I had accomplished in that first [...]
https://youtu.be/3J0tKfpMjWE While I'm writing this post in September, by the time it's up, I'll have been living in Vermont for the past 5 days. Over the summer, my best friend and I decided to take advantage of this whole virtual teaching thing and spend the month of October somewhere else. With gorgeous fall scenery and [...]
https://youtu.be/KIuV2PwRAR0 Side hustling in the teacher world is extremely common. I have colleagues who leave work and head straight to babysit, tutor, bartend, deliver food, and the list goes on. While this level of normalcy is a side effect of having a limited income, I still appreciated seeing so many teachers do what originally seemed [...]
https://youtu.be/Dv7FzrzroS8 Most months don't bring very much financial anxiety for me anymore. I've grown a lot in this way: when I started this website, my anxiety seemed to creep into every post. Now, I don't often worry about money like I used to (other than, for instance, during the start of a global pandemic). September [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCt9km01dFY&feature=youtu.be One of my favorite topics in the world of personal finance is FIRE (financial independence retire early) because I find it so liberating and ridiculously simple to understand. I find that this topic, unlike any other, encourages people to dream bigger than they thought they could and still get hyper-specific about their numbers. So, [...]
https://youtu.be/8ML9mPH55Kw Last month, I posted a video & blog post about all the things I no longer buy as a minimalist. As I expected, this got a lot of clicks-- many people who consume personal finance advice LOVE reading about ways to cut back on spending. I think this is because it's the type of [...]
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