You love your friends and family, and you’d do absolutely anything to help them. Then one day, your friend is late on rent and asks to borrow $500 from you. He promises to pay you back when he gets his next paycheck, but you’re not so sure. You’re worried that loaning out money could put […]
Going out with friends is always a fraught situation. When you sit down for a meal in a restaurant, trying to figure out who pays can be difficult. Do you each pay for your own meal? Split the bill evenly? Or is someone responsible for paying the whole thing? In the end, the most important […]
This week marks my fourth year wedding anniversary. I know it may sound cliché, but I am going to say it anyway: It feels like it was just yesterday! While a lot has changed in four years, I think many couples still find themselves in the same situation my husband and I did. We wanted […]
A friend of mine lost her longtime job back when one of the biggest companies in the state closed during the financial crisis. She received small unemployment checks for nearly a year and a half while she searched for a new one. With two kids to support, she could barely make ends meet. Soon after […]
Around six months ago, I declared I was going to “unspoil” my kids. My kids are pretty well-behaved, but I wanted to start teaching them about responsibility and the value of a dollar. Even though my kids are young – three and five – I’ve still found some ways to start instilling financial responsibility in […]
Growing up, I knew kids who were paid for their grades. An A was worth $X, and a B was worth a little less, and so on. My parents briefly flirted with the idea of paying my siblings and me for our grades but realized it didn’t really motivate us all that much. It was unnecessary in […]
