Helping teachers master their money
https://youtu.be/sOGySqUuhuA Happy Monday, Readers. Today I'm going to cover some well-treaded territory in the personal finance blogisphere. Chances are, if you follow other creators who are into budgeting, you’ve seen pictures and pictures of lots of pretty envelopes full of cash. That’s because so many people in the personal finance space use what’s called the cash [...]
https://youtu.be/XQu9i4FUe98 Hey readers. Happy Monday! November is one of my favorite months, and it's just around the corner. I get to celebrate my birthday and my anniversary this month, as well as Thanksgiving, which is definitely in my top 3 favorite holidays. It's also the month when money nerds around the world participate in no-spend [...]
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/Rhseeqcpup0 During my first summer off, and for the first time since I started tracking my net worth consistently, my net worth actually decreased from last month. All things considered, this was an expected part of my financial plan. I knew taking the summer off would lead to short-term losses. Still, I'm slightly surprised to [...]
It's been a while since I've posted an educational deep-dive on a topic, and this one is long overdue. When the average person thinks about investing, visions of day trading individual stocks and risking their money fill their mind-- this was legitimately what I thought investing was a few short years ago, because it's the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsBU3xeJtI As the end of the month approaches, it's once again time to take stock of all of my savings and investment accounts to add up my latest net worth. It feels weird, still, putting out this content while the world, and especially my country, is still being deeply affected by a pandemic that has [...]
While I've been quiet about my numbers on the blog for a while, I've been updating my YouTube consistently on a weekly basis, and I want to catch all of you up in writing now 🙂 Let's start with my net worth for May 2020-- here are the latest totals of each of my accounts: [...]
I'd been going around in circles, in my head, trying to come up with an elegant solution for people trying to just start getting control of their money. But it wasn't simple. I knew this because my own journey had been messy-- I followed financial resources that I later learned to be problematic. I tried [...]
Photo by Brooke Lark via Unsplash.com If you follow me on Instagram (which you should if you'll get value from it: @wrachelwrites), you've seen these graphs which break down my yearly spending by percentage. I added up exactly what I spent last year (thanks to my budget records, this was easy to do), and made [...]
Photo by Katie Harp via Unsplash.com Disclaimer: This post contains a promo code for a savings app. I've been mulling over writing this, because it's made me feel a bit icky (I would clearly benefit from it monetarily) and the last thing I want to do is come off as self-serving or inauthentic to my [...]
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