I have written several posts about my financial goals for 2017, which I broke down with specific goals for each month of the year. Overall, the goal is to give myself a healthier relationship to money, and to reduce our spending and consumption as a family. In order to keep myself accountable, I’m recapping how […]
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I have written several posts about my financial goals for 2017, which I broke down with specific goals for each month of the year. Overall, the goal is to give myself a healthier relationship to money, and to reduce our spending and consumption as a family. In order to keep myself accountable, I’m recapping how […]
You may remember a while ago I posted about a potential strategy that Mr. Cotton Candy and I were considering to allow me to take some time off when baby #2 is born. To recap, because I’m a freelancer, I don’t have a built-in maternity leave, so we had to get a bit creative in […]
Since becoming pregnant with baby #2, I’ve been trying to take care of some big-picture financial and legal planning for my family. These aren’t necessarily “fun” tasks, but since I’ve put myself on an indefinite shopping hiatus, and it’s still too early to start stocking up on baby gear, financial research and planning is my […]
I’ve written before about my desire to find work/life balance as a freelancer who works from home, and now that this pregnancy is real, Mr. Cotton Candy and I are starting to dig into some tough decisions. The major difficulty is that as a contract worker, not an employee, I have no rights to maternity […]
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to tackle those naggling tasks that we put off over the holidays. Clean start, and all that. This year, due to some changes in income, we are tweaking our budget to squeeze it a bit tighter. I wanted to give an overview of how we budget, plus […]
Last week I wrote about our family’s 4-step plan to restore peace in our house. Today I am diving into Step 1 of our plan, which is to create a realistic budget and stick to it. Like many people, I have mixed emotions about money. I didn’t grow up in a family with lots of extra […]
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