Student Loan Payment Guide: How To Budget For Resuming Student Loan Payments
If you’re one of the 45 million student loan borrowers, you’re likely feeling anxiety about making room in your budget for these payments, which on average clock in at $503 per month. Here are 7 suggestions on how to ease into student loan payments again.
We Need To Talk About Mindset
You see, mindset is a tool, and as such can be used to help or hinder. Lately I’ve been seeing mindset weaponized—a tool of rugged individualism over our collective plight of capitalism. And I have a big problem with this.
30 Things I’ve Learned About Money In 30 Years
Celebrating my 30th birthday by sharing the 30 things I’ve learned about money in 30 years.
4 Lessons Divorce Taught Me About Money
I wouldn’t wish divorce on anyone. With that being said, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. I got married too young, because of survival, to someone who was not right for me. Through that experience, I learned a thing or two about money… and a lot about myself. Here are 4 lessons divorce taught me about money:
Fall In Love With Finance: September 30-Day Money Challenge
Fall is the perfect season to fall in love and clean up your finances for back-to-school hubbub and the looming holiday chaos. While you may still be sun tanning in September #climatechange — this 30-day money challenge will inspire you to take more ownership over your personal finances and give you a better picture of where you are when it comes to your wallet.
How We Saved A $10k Emergency Fund
Having an emergency fund, or a rainy day fund, is an essential part of any responsible personal finance plan. Here is how we saved $10k in our fully funded emergency fund.
4 Steps To Take When You’re Starting To Get Your Financial Shit Together
Taking control of your finances is exciting and powerful. You’re about to take a big step in improving your life. While it may be a new chapter in your life, it can also be an overwhelming and intimidating one… at first. Cut back on uncertainty and start working on your financial situation in an effective way when you follow these four steps.
Realistic Money Goals In An Unrealistic Economy
The reality is that we can’t and don’t control gas prices, higher rent bills, or food prices. If we could, all of it would be free and equitable. So what money goals do you set when prices begin to creep up and your income stays the same?
How To Save Money This Summer
Saving money is getting more and more difficult nowadays, but these 5 tips, you’ll be well on your way to saving money this summer.
4 Ways To Lower Car Costs TODAY
For the majority of us, having a car is a non-negotiable— and with almost 92% of Americans having access to a car, how do we keep costs bearable? Here are 4 ways to lower car costs today.
Alternative Housing Options For Combating Rising Housing Costs
Society expects a traditional, linear path — one riddled with debt and high-interest loans. Work hard in high school, go to college, buy a new car, get married, buy a house, have kids, get that corner office… does this sound familiar to you? While you may have been able to accomplish all of this with little to no debt “back in the day,” (think white, middle-class, 1960s) the same is simply not possible in 2022.
5 Financial Triggers And How To Overcome Them
Triggered. We hear this word everywhere nowadays. Despite Fox News bullying liberal millennial “snowflakes” for being emotionally intelligent, the word “triggered,” is valid. Especially when you have experienced trauma in your life. Financial trauma not withstanding. A trigger is a reminder of a past trauma. This reminder can cause a person to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or panic. It may also cause someone to have flashbacks (goodtherapy.org). Here are 5 financial triggers and how to overcome them.
How To Stay Debt-Free
Here are 5 ways my family stays out of debt after getting out of it and uses our cash-flow intentionally. This is how we continue to live a debt-free life.
10 Ways To Improve Your Finances In The New Year
The ball has dropped and Auld Lang Syne has been sung, which can only mean one thing: It’s the new year!
If you’re looking to set money goals in 2022 or improve your personal finances, I have just the thing for you. Here are 10 ways to improve your finances in the new year.
21 Ways to Digitally Declutter In The New Year
In the last few years, the world spent the majority of the time at home, so decluttering and minimizing became even more popular. As 2022 rolls around, we are still battling COVID-19 and much of our day-to-day life has turned to online means of business and communication. Here are 21 ways you can digitally declutter in the New Year.
How To Deal With Kaizen Burnout
On the surface, kaizen seems harmless. At least that’s what I thought before I majored in corporate power and communications and became jaded with capitalist dread. When you take a closer look you notice that the kaizen ‘continuous improvement’ philosophy is corporate brainwashing wrapped up in a pretty bow. At the end of the day, when you kaizen for a company, you’re kaizening (is that a thing?) for a bottom line — and it certainly isn’t your bottom line.
5 Dog Products That Will Change Your Life
While living in Colorado, I’ve been able to snag an extra grand a month just by hanging out with sweet animals via Rover. You can sign up to be a walker or sitter by clicking this sentence.
Dogs are a large part of my life, so it makes sense that I have products I love surrounding my pooches.
Here are 5 dog products that will change your life:
To Be A Better Ally, Get Informed
This work was compiled by an ally. Unfortunately, her voice was silenced— so we decided to showcase these important resources on Vee Frugal Fox.
Thank you for coming to me and letting your voice be heard despite the ignorance and cowardice of others.
At the end of this list, I have added BIPOC personal finance accounts that you should follow as well.
Coronavirus and the ‘Poor’
Personal finance is my passion and my joy. I love helping people-- that’s why I do this. I once knew next to nothing about money besides I should probably have a checking account. Now, I’m focused on building a business and generational wealth. Then the Coronavirus hit.
Forcing Your Kids To Go To College Is Stupid
In a perfect world, you’d grow up with financially stable parents. Your parents saved your entire life for you to go to the college of your dreams. You graduate with a degree, and go into the career of your choice. You then make $59k salary that the statistics promised you. You’d have no student loan debt, you’d get a job in your chosen field a week after graduation, and you’d be livin’ the life.
Reality check.
That lifestyle is right up there with unicorns and cotton-candy clouds for the majority of Americans. Most Millennials and Gen-Zers were raised with this rose-colored idea preached to them by society, but without the actual reality of a loaded 529 saving account and a field-of-study that guarantees a lucrative career.