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7 Tips to be More Consistent With Your Money
Learn 7 easy ways to get more consistent with your budgeting, budget tracking, spending, and goal setting.
How I Made $3000 This Month As an Artist and Witch
Remember, anything can be a job. It’s a blessing and a curse, but if your secret dream is to be a fairy or mermaid or witch or whatever, you actually can. Childhood dreams come true, bitches.
Why “Pulling Yourself up by Your Bootstraps” is Bullshit
Society has always loved the underdog story. The bootstrapping, hard-working, comes from nothing and makes it to the top life story that gives the impression that if we just work hard enough, we too can make it to the top. Really, it’s poverty porn. It takes what can be a traumatic experience and exalts it to a level of almost sainthood, without acknowledging the systemic reasons behind it.
8 Ways to Give Financial Help on a Low Income
What if we stopped approaching giving our people money as a loan and started to look at it like mutual aid? If we stop expecting to be paid back and we stop thinking we have a right to dictate how someone spends the money we give them?
How Spending Money Is Helpful for Self-Esteem
Spending money on ourselves can be an important component to recovery and healing our relationship with ourselves for various reasons. We need to move away from automatically chastising people who spend money as a part of recovering from years of negative self-esteem.
How to Use Financing Options Responsibly Part 1
When you’re coming from a low income, financing is sometimes the only option for things like car repairs, medical procedures, or even higher education. That doesn’t mean that it’s bad. It does mean, however, that you need to do your due diligence and make sure you’re using that debt strategically and responsibly.
Why The “Just Move” Argument Doesn’t Help People Struggling with Cost of Living Increases
There are few ways to mitigate how insane rent or home prices are right now. Short of a major housing bubble burst, it doesn’t look like prices are going to ease up either. It’s one of the many reasons why telling someone to “just move” isn’t a well-thought-out piece of advice.
5 Ways to Get Ahead of Financial Emergencies
Everyone will experience financial hardship in some way. How you handle those times can have an impact on your money for years. It’s better to get ahead of financial issues at the start rather than wait. Here are 5 tips to help mitigate the impact of financial emergencies.
7 Ways to Save Money When Seasons Change
Managing money isn’t always about what you deposit in your savings account, what you put into retirement, or how much debt you pay off. It’s also how you maximize your money by either not letting it go to waste or getting ahead of costly emergencies.
6 Ways to Manage Food, Money, and Mental Illness
Money facilitates the ability to buy those organic apples or not. Not having a lot of money to buy these things can make you feel like no matter what, you’re not going to be able to care for your body the way society tells you you should.