As of exactly one week ago, I'm vested in my pension. From what I understand, this means that, if I were to quit my job today, I could draw $2,284 per month, every month, for the rest of my life, once I reach retirement age - for me, this is age 52. Actually, at this point, ... Read more...
Archives for August 2012
There’s A Lot I Still Don’t Understand About Money
I'm approaching my fourth (!) anniversary as a personal finance blogger. In that time, I've learned a lot about money. Not only about my own finances, but about financial topics in general. As a result of my involvement with the PF community, I could tell you the difference ... Read more...
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
When I first started teaching I was 22 and totally in over my head. I was barely older than my students, fresh out of graduate school, and had no clue what I'd gotten myself into. There were a lot of moments - a lot of moments, guys - that I had no answer to a student's question, ... Read more...
Building a Career: What I Know So Far
In my twenties, so far, I've made many, many mistakes. I got into a lot of debt. I messed up really good relationships. I wore bad outfits, smoked too many cigarettes, and exceeded the speed limit on a near-daily basis. But one thing that I've managed to keep moving forward with, ... Read more...
Should the Basics of Money Management Change if You Have a Troubled Past?
A few days ago I read an interesting piece over at XOJane. The author is basically saying that people judge her all the time for living paycheck-to-paycheck, but as a 29-year-old woman who formerly struggled with an eating disorder and an addiction to drugs, she doesn't really ... Read more...
When Do You Let Your PF “Freak Flag” Fly?
About a year ago, a friend of mine who was newly married told me about how she and her husband were in the process of shopping for life insurance. She complained that life insurance is a complicated product and that they were having a hard time choosing between whole-life and ... Read more...
I Think I’ve Come Down With a Case of Never-Good-Enough-Itis
When I first started blogging about money almost 4 years ago, I used to think to myself, "if I could just pay off this personal loan, I would be soooo thrilled and feel soooo much better about my finances." Then I paid it off. Pretty much within 24 hours, I started thinking, ... Read more...
Just A Reminder
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Book Review and Giveaway Tuesday!
A few months ago, I was contacted about reviewing the newly-released, updated edition of a personal finance classic: Suze Orman's The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying. Of course, I jumped at the opportunity! First, let me ... Read more...
Expensive, But Worth It
Ok, here's the truth: about certain things, I am very, very cheap. There are so many things that I get annoyed about spending money on. Parking and cover charges immediately spring to mind, but there are lots of other examples. I drive the people in my life a little nuts ... Read more...