What are your best tips for financially surviving a divorce? What would you do differently with your finances during the marriage, if anything — and when would you have done it?
Tales from the Wallet: Financially Preparing for Baby
These are some of our best tips on financially preparing for baby — both before and after you conceive!
Tales from the Wallet: Financially Preparing for Grad School
We had a great discussion a few weeks ago about wedding finances, and now it’s time for the next post in our Money Milestone series: financially preparing for grad school. We’ve talked about how to adjust your new student budget once you get to grad school, how to pay off student loans, how to juggle … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: Financially Preparing for Grad School
Tales from the Wallet: Wedding Finances
What are your best tips on how to get married without going broke, readers?
Tales from the Wallet: Finding a Financial Planner
When should I get a financial planner? What are the best tips for finding a financial planner I like? These are some of the biggest personal finance questions we’ve gotten over the years — but I’ve never hired one, so I asked Corporette editor Kate Antoniades to ask the experts for us. This is her first … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: Finding a Financial Planner
What Purchases are Worth the Splurge — And What Aren’t?
Something that I’ve wanted to do for a while is talk about what’s worth the “splurge” (on a big or small level) versus what’s NOT worth the splurge. For example: I always joke that life is too short for cheap liquor and cheap toilet paper. On the flip side, I rarely notice the difference with a … Read More about What Purchases are Worth the Splurge — And What Aren’t?
Tales from the Wallet: Different Money Management Methods for Marriage and Partnerships
Update: We’ve still stand by this discussion on married money management methods and have updated links; you may also want to check out some of our more recent discussions about money. We’ve talked about how to keep track of many accounts — but I don’t think we’ve ever talked about which money management method Corporette … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: Different Money Management Methods for Marriage and Partnerships
Tales from the Wallet: How to Invest $10K
How should you invest $10K? Readers were talking about this on our money roadmap post, and I thought it might be helpful to talk about more. Maybe you’ve recently gotten a bonus or small inheritance… maybe you’ve just been saving for a while and are now saying, OK, let’s invest this sucker. So what are … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: How to Invest $10K
A Money Roadmap: Where to Go Next In Your Personal Finance Journey
We’ve talked about a ton of different money issues here, but it occurred to me that it might be helpful to do a simple “roadmap” post — a listing of what to do, in what order, with links to the appropriate posts. So here’s my list of what to do with your money — if … Read More about A Money Roadmap: Where to Go Next In Your Personal Finance Journey
Tales from the Wallet: Emergency Funds – How Much & Where
How much do you keep in your emergency fund? WHERE do you keep it? How often do you re-evaluate it? We haven’t talked about emergency funds in a few years, so I thought we should revisit. (Pictured: Tory Burch Priscilla Wallet, was $250, now $175 (also available in fuchsia, as well as in a zippered … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: Emergency Funds – How Much & Where
Tales From the Wallet: Insurance Tips for Young Professionals
What kind of insurance do you personally have? How (and when) did you decide to get more insurance?
Open Thread: Let’s Talk About Savings Goals
Wow, we were not expecting that response to the “how much do you spend on clothes” thread — among a lot of our friends we’re the cheapskate. (We run with a lot of well-dressed ladies!) Keep in mind, however, that we haunt the sales — as we tried to make clear, there’s a difference between … Read More about Open Thread: Let’s Talk About Savings Goals