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LIFE & PERSONAL| TRAVEL

Five Things I Learned Taking a Break from New York City

September 27, 2017 34 Comments
The Value of Travel

My husband and I just got back from a fun visit with some friends in Cincinnati, Ohio. As usual, the trip was frugal. Staying in our friends’ fantastic, mid-century modern house cost us nothing. We ate out at a fancy place just once. We paid a little over $200 total for the plane tickets. What […]

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INVESTING| LIFE & PERSONAL| SAVING

My Student Loan Story Was Lame: How I’d Pay It Off Now

September 18, 2017 14 Comments
How to Pay Off Student Loans

Confession: My student loan story is boring. It took me seven years to pay off 17k in student loan debt. Seven whole years. That’s a little over $200 paid per month. Meanwhile I get whiplash by so many awe-inspiring debt payoff stories like this or this. See? My story is unsexy in comparison. The $200 didn’t […]

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LIFE & PERSONAL| SAVING

What My Immigrant Mom Can Teach You About Money

September 1, 2017 36 Comments
How an Immigrant Does Money

My mom thinks that if she had $1,100 a month she’d be able to retire rich. That’s just $13,200 a year. To most people reading this that amount is poverty level. You need millions to retire, right? My mom and I have this tradition: since she can’t read or write, she puts any unfamiliar mail […]

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LIFE & PERSONAL| SAVING

Nine Things I Do That Have Radically Simplified My Life

August 21, 2017 37 Comments
10 Things I Do That Have Radically Simplified My Life

I think I may be an Accidental Minimalist. I’ve never sought out to be a minimalist, but over the weekend I’ve realized that I may have been an unassuming minimalist this entire time. Over the years, I’ve naturally developed a system for making small, everyday decisions that simplify my life AND help out my wallet. […]

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The Problem With Having a Funny-Sounding Name

August 14, 2017 73 Comments
The Problem with Having a Funny-Sounding Name

*Today I was supposed to write about credit cards, but after what happened in Charlottesville, I didn’t feel like it. So I decided to write what was bugging me instead. I hope you don’t mind. Your regularly scheduled programming will start up again this Thursday.* I have a funny-sounding name. It doesn’t just sound funny, […]

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INVESTING| LIFE & PERSONAL| SHOPPING

How I Plan to Crush My 2017 Goals

August 3, 2017 55 Comments
How I'm Going to Crush my 2017 Goals

A few months ago I told you that if you want to meet your goals you might want to broadcast them to people. Because if you do, to avoid embarrassment, you’re more likely to follow through. So here I am, oversharing on my goals. Because I want to crush them. There’s nothing like being competitive. […]

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LIFE & PERSONAL| WEDDINGS

I Don’t Have an Engagement Ring and I’m Not a Loser

July 13, 2017 86 Comments
Cartier Ring Box

People get worked up about engagement rings. Just last week a coworker announced she was engaged. The first thing other women did? Rush over to scope out the engagement ring. That’s just what people do. Anyway who’s ever contemplated marriage has felt the intense social expectations about “the ring.” So when I tell people I […]

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