Sarah VanHoose
Okay, for my visual peeps out there – I’m going to start summarizing some of my weekly videos each month, along with the BIG ‘tiny’ goal update. Keeping you in the loop in case you missed a video, or *gasp* aren’t on Instagram. First up – a quick recap of how March stacked up, and […]
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Okay, let’s talk about budget percentages on your guilty pleasures. And, while we’re at it, let’s look at overall best practices for how much a few standard budget categories should line up with your overall income. What’s your favorite guilty pleasure? Or that hobby that keeps your inbox full of sales and specials for your
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Have you ever gone to bed worried about your finances? The math just wasn’t adding up – the money you have coming in, minus the money you have going out – isn’t getting you closer to your goals. In fact, sometimes it feels like your goals are only realistic in a land of fancy unicorns,
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April the 15th is known all around as Tax Day, especially for those of us that have to pay more than what we already did throughout the year. Now, this year is a little different in a lot of ways – including an extended federal Tax Day deadline; but go with me on this, will
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Do you consider yourself a #goalgetter? Maybe a goal chaser? Or perhaps a girl with a goal? Lots of good hashtags in there! Tell me….what do you want? No, really – what are you chasing? Is it a lifetime of love and happiness? Sure – I think that we’re all after some level of contentment
They say motherhood changes you. Damn right it changes you, from top to bottom and everywhere in between. I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night, but I can remember details of my girls’ birth stories as if it were only moments ago. My oldest daughter just turned double digits you guys, 1-0.
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My sister filed for unemployment late last week, for the first time in her life and she said that she felt ashamed to not have a job any longer. See, our parents have instilled a strong work ethic in us (farm girls!) and none of us have ever been unemployed. We’ve been hustling straight out
Unemployed. Now, what? Read More »
I think that at this point that you all know that I drank the Kool-Aid of common sense that is Dave Ramsey’s money philosophy. Let me tell you a little more about Dave’s baby steps advise that I’ve utilized, and encourage my clients to do as well. Well, I guess we’ll start out at the
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When my husband and I were dating and newly married we had all the time in the world, and enough money to do what we needed…including eating out. Dinner out was like…our love language. We got to catch up with each other over a meal, didn’t have to cook it or clean up after it
I am not your mother. And I’m not going to tell you what to do. And I am ready for your budget excuses. One of my favorite not-the-best-mother-moments in my nearly 10-year career in motherhood came at bedtime. Bedtime has never been torturous for us, but it also has never been kittens and rainbows. We have
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