Budgets on Shine

Two Grand a Month

nospam@example.com ()

Just curious if anyone remembers that article where, I believe, Suze Orman gave a breakdown for people take home roughly $2,000 a month. I am relocating for a job and am determined that with this new job (the first job I've ever had with real benefits, 401K and everything!) to be as on top of my…

Lower Your Expenses With 12 Money Saving Tips

nospam@example.com ()

Print this out and put it on your fridge. You’ll want to remember these money saving tips and practice them every chance you get. These tips are not like crash dieting to lose weight fast. You have to put in some muscle to make them work. But I promise you if do, your life will…

Q&A: Relationships in a Recession

nospam@example.com ()

A recent batch of Money Mom letters from Green Sherpa has everyone talking a lot about how our relationships are affected by money. It’s clearly on people’s minds.

Dear Money Mom, My husband and I have never fought so much. We have always been really…

Why Women Are Spending Less and Living More

nospam@example.com ()

In my moms group recently, I asked the question, “What are you all doing to save money?” What I meant was, “How are you saving cash around town?” The answers I got clued me in to a core shift in our experience: the economy is changing not just the way we spend, but the way we live—that…

Do It Yourself: How Women Are Changing Personal Finance

nospam@example.com ()

There’s a voice coming out at the forefront of personal finance that is newly communal. Economic news and forecasts have us talking: strangers or friends, when we get together we start asking, “How are you keeping it together? Where are you shopping and saving these days? What are your tips…

The Memory of Money: Three Tips to Unlock Financial Freedom

nospam@example.com ()

#1 Take a Money Snapshot To understand your financial picture today, take a money snapshot of what you witnessed as a child. Do you remember watching how your parents spent money? Did you receive an allowance? If so, how much was it? What did you spend it on? Did your family…

Separate Your Personal Life from Your Personal Finances

nospam@example.com ()

My friend tipped me off to a great practice last week. She and her husband schedule weekly business meetings to discuss the business of the family. They divide their lives into three sections—family, marriage, and fun—and they approach each topic separately. For family stuff, they arrange the…

Getting Honest About Your Money

nospam@example.com ()

There is power in planning—you make a budget, you’ve got a map to anywhere you want to go. But, for all the plan making and budget creating that I encourage, the real power is in the honesty you bring to the table. The truth is sneaky sometimes. We think we’re speaking it. Playing our…

Dear Money Mom

nospam@example.com ()

Dear Money Mom, You have good advice for people who have time to organize and money to budget, but things are hard right now. What do I do if I can’t pay my bills? Sincerely, Hoping for More Dear Hoping, Life is about relationships, and bills are no different. Unpaid bills are just…

Mastering Money and Managing Debt

nospam@example.com ()

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.”—Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel space If you are hoping to grow in the area of personal finance and organization,…