These are some of our best tips on financially preparing for baby — both before and after you conceive!
The Next Step: Services
What are the best ways to upgrade personal services such as massages, food delivery, personal training, and more? More importantly, where is the middle ground between DIYing it and, for example, hiring a personal chef? How can you outsource and save time in some areas of your life so that you can focus on spending your time (and money) on the … Read More about The Next Step: Services
The Pros and Cons of Thrifting for Workwear
What are best practices for getting workwear at the thrift store? What are the pros and cons?
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
Guest Post: From Growing Up Poor to Working in Big Law
How does your background — like growing up poor — affect your life in Big Law or other conservative jobs? After all, Big Law (and other Big jobs) can be interesting places, full of strange traditions, big personalities, and a lot of assumptions — that everyone knows what to wear yachting or for a golf … Read More about Guest Post: From Growing Up Poor to Working in Big Law
Tales from the Wallet: Wedding Finances
What are your best tips on how to get married without going broke, readers?
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?
Rewarding Yourself for a Job Well Done
2019 Update: We still stand by this fun discussion with tips on rewarding yourself for a job well done — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion on ways to celebrate professional wins. What are some good ways for rewarding yourself for a job well done? Reader L wonders how … Read More about Rewarding Yourself for a Job Well Done
Guest Post: Women Breadwinners Can Level the Financial Playing Field
2018 Update: We still think this is a great discussion on whether women breadwinners can level the financial playing field — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion on when women out earn their partners. Women breadwinners is a topic we’ve touched on before: we answered a reader question about dating … Read More about Guest Post: Women Breadwinners Can Level the Financial Playing Field
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