Custodial Roth IRA vs. UGMA Account: Which One Should You Open for Your Child? When I first started looking into investing for my kids, I quickly realized there were far more options than I expected. College savings accounts, Custodial Roth IRA accounts, retirement accounts for kids—it felt like every article I read introduced another acronym. […]
Custodial Roth IRA vs. UGMA Account: Which One Should You Open?
Adapting our Budget During Inflation
Like for many people, inflation has hit us hard. We’ve had to change our spending habits, change vacation and entertainment plans, and try to find any ways we can to make our money work for us while everything seems to get more expensive all too quickly. I’ve had to make use of a family budgeting […]
7 Tips For Managing Your Family’s Finances During A Career Change
Make sure your family’s finances are stable, even during a career change A career change can be an exciting time, but that excitement also comes with a little bit of stress. Especially for those supporting a family, a career change can feel like a huge financial risk. No matter why you’ve decided to make this […]
Managing Finances As a Military Spouse: Tips For Budgeting and Investing
Take advantage of military benefits and other investments to make sure that your family’s finances are secure As a military family, managing finances is a big responsibility. No matter if you stay at home to care for your family or you work too, managing the income received from the military can pose its own unique […]
4 High-Priority Financial Investments For Young Adults
Take full advantage of time by investing in your future as early as possible Having financial freedom as a young adult is a great feeling. Now with a full-time salary and few financial obligations, you may find that you have an excess amount of money. With a solid emergency fund and savings account in place, […]
Saving and Earning more since the start of Covid-19
Like many people, life hasn’t been easy since the start of the pandemic. The current level of inflation has made things even harder. At first, not being able to go out for awhile made me a bit financially better off, I was able to save a lot more money by not being able to go […]
Car Shopping in a $5 gallon world
Like many families, ours has been hit hard with the impacts of COVID-19, increasing fuel prices, and employment changes the past couple of years. I’m relatively lucky to have an older hybrid car myself, but my oldest daughter uses my mini-van and it chugs gas like a college student chugs energy drinks while cramming for […]
Do you have a spending plan?
Finances can be hard stuff, and when push comes to shove it can be easy for things to spiral all too quickly out of control. Wondering where all your money goes during the month is a question that many people have. A budget helps when you’re managing your savings, expenses and income. Having a spending […]
How To Make Money At Home
Having kids of various ages means it can be hard to find a work life balance when working outside of the house. Add in daycare costs being rather cost prohibitive, many people, myself included, have turned to looking into making money at home. I have a variety of different little gigs I put time and […]
Save on OREO Chocolate King Size Candy Bars at Walmart +Giveaway!
This post was sponsored by Nabisco as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. Right now at Walmart you can save on these super delicious OREO Chocolate King Size Candy Bars! They’re on rollback for just $1 and have two delicious flavors to choose […]
