Crap happens. Unexpected expenses come up. Human error makes way for mathematical oopsies. Sometimes we may have less income coming in. Whatever the reasoning, sometimes we find ourselves dipping into our savings. While we definitely should avoid this at all costs, sometimes its just inevitable. Before you start beating yourself up over it or [...] Read more »
Financing Advice for Graduate Students: Finding the Right Balance for Those with an Assistantship
Today we bring you another guest post from another fabulous millenial. Alexis Bonari is a freelance writer and researcher for College Scholarships, where recently she’s been researching martial arts scholarships as well as massage therapy scholarships. Whenever she gets some free time, she enjoys watching a funny movie or curling up with a good book. Financing [...] Read more »
5 Lessons Entrepreneurs and Bloggers Can Learn From Apple
At my day job yesterday I was teaching a business oriented English class and came across the topic of marketing. I decided to put a little spin on things and asked my student “What is the first company that comes to mind when you think of great marketing?” She immediately answered “APPLE!” She was totally [...] Read more »
Taxes for Freelancers: Filing My First Tax Return
Boy did I have a rude awakening this week. When I started freelancing a few months back, I was so involved in finding ways to make money and run a business that I failed to take one very important thing into consideration: TAXES. This of course became a little more complicated once I started working [...] Read more »
The Smart College Grad: 5 Ways to Make Extra Money in Your 20s
The Bad News Whether we like it or not, we have to come to terms with the fact that our generation is being faced with multi-faceted financial problems. We are being forced to tackle a horrible job market, non-paying internships have replaced entry level jobs, entry level jobs don’t pay enough to meet our mounting [...] Read more »
2011 Money Goals for Gen Y
In preparation for today’s post I made a simple Google search for “Gen Y Money”. You know, to get a feel for what people are writing about us. Boy, are we a popular topic of discussion! Headlines like Why Gen Y is Broke, Why Gen Y Might Never Retire, and Gen Y’s Money Woes are [...] Read more »
How to Spend Less than $20 a Week
Image via sushi♥ina If you haven’t already checked out Money Rabbit’s Gen Y financial blog, you probably should. Thanks to the fact that she records what she spends each week, I also started doing the same each day. I was pretty appalled by how much money I spent last week on food and frivolous items, [...] Read more »
5 Money Saving Tactics for Gen Y
The Situation: Currently, most of us Gen Y folk either a) can’t find a job and were forced to move back home after college, b) are doing internships for little to no money, c) are working at a low paying job to get by as you begin to climb the career ladder, or d) went [...] Read more »
Taking the Red Pill: 5 Steps for Taking Control of Your Finances
This is a guest post from a fabulous 20-something finance blogger who writes under the name Money Rabbit. Money Rabbit is a 23 year old personal finance blogger currently living in Toronto, Ontario. She likes investing, saving for travel, and long walks on the beach. MoneyRabbit.ca was started as a form of cataloguing her journey [...] Read more »
Young, Fabulous, and Broke (and my ode to Suze Orman)
I’m going to admit that I have been living under a rock for years, probably because I went to college in the middle of nowhere and any day that we weren’t mistaken for animal poachers was considered a good day. Anyway, I have to make the embarrassing confession that I had no idea who Suze [...] Read more »
