I remember the summer after graduating from high school. I was 18 with long blonde, surfer dude hair, working as a luggage handler at a hotel. One day at work, my coworkers and I were sitting around during down time. Somebody asked, “Hey bros (*hair flip*), what if you had enough money in your savings …
Budgeting…. everyone’s favorite topic *insert sarcasm*. Americans are notoriously bad at budgets, so it’s usually a sore subject, but a necessary one. Multiple surveys show that the majority of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. How can this be!? A huge reason for this: Americans have been conditioned for instant gratification. Want a new …
Until my recent move to Oregon, I was blissfully unaffected by state income tax. My previous home states, Alaska and Washington, were both free of this financial curse. I didn’t know how good I had it. My first few paychecks in Oregon sparked the tingling desire to crunch some numbers (numbers give me pleasure — …
It seems like every week I see another article about millennials being broke due to student debt. That doesn’t have to be you. You can, absolutely, get through college without student loan debt. How would I know, you ask? When I graduated from high school in 2006, I had no job, no bank account, and …