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https://youtu.be/_3Gq3xQdhEU This is highly requested from my IG audience, who sees me post a lot of plant pictures on my stories. I always thought I couldn’t take care of plants. When the pandemic started, I decided to learn more about them, and it turns out it’s not that difficult once you start reading into the [...]

https://youtu.be/kngr8mxBMKE Hey everyone! I'm SO excited to bring you this video, which I had a blast making. It was so enlightening to look back at my budgets from the past 3 years and compare them to how I view and manage my money today. I remember how much of a learning curve it was to [...]

https://youtu.be/S_0KhpAFWVY Happy new year, everyone! For today's BWM, I have a fairly standard barebones budget for January 2022, and a few updates on salary increases to come in the next couple of months, (hopefully) starting this month. Enjoy! As always, thanks for your support of my channel. I’m getting closer to monetizing, so keep watching, [...]

https://youtu.be/IdCi9uZem84 Happy holidays, everyone! It's the time of year to wrap up all my tracking for 2021, reflect, and make a plan for 2022. Calculating my yearly net worth is a HUGE part of this process for me. This year, I was able to meet my (amended) goal of growing my net worth by $20,000 [...]

https://youtu.be/WX8Z7dV1RaY Happy holidays, everyone! This is one of my favorite videos I do each year, where I chronicle every dollar I spent in each category. This year is extra exciting for me, because it's the first year I have numbers to compare it to (see last year's video below). I saw mostly comparable numbers in [...]

https://youtu.be/IPgsH3GNuIo These are my top 5 favorite personal finance podcasts, complete with descriptions of why I enjoy each of them so much. Leave a comment below if you have a money podcast you love 🙂 Spotify links to the shows mentioned: Brown Ambition The Financial Confessions The Fairer Cents Afford Anything Teachers Talk Money If [...]

https://youtu.be/NNuenITUwn8 Hey reader, Welcome back to 12 months to get good with money, a series of bite-sized steps to take over each of the 12 months of the year to get good with money slowly. Let's recap the past few months: In January, you made a budget. In February, you made savings goals. In March, [...]

https://youtu.be/nSoWTCWyKmE Hey team! Very excited to bring you an interesting BWM for the month of December 2021. This month, I have much more income than usual to work with, thanks to a third paycheck and a "recruitment and retention" incentive my district is giving us to make up for some of the lost income due [...]

https://youtu.be/WSFINoUfJm0 This month’s net worth update saw a change of over $2,000 across my savings and investment accounts, with over $700 being passive growth from compound interest. But more affirming to me in my money mindset having shifted so drastically over the course of these years, from someone who had overly negative, anxious, and controlling [...]

https://youtu.be/2p_sYILY8v4 This is one of the most common conversations I have with folks who have some solid money habits. The type of person I’m describing spends less than they make, is usually at least somewhat frugal, and has a big chunk of money in their savings account. While they’re great at saving, they usually don’t [...]