If you follow the personal finance blog-o-sphere (what an annoying word, btw…) you’ve no doubt stumbled onto the weird phenomenon that sprouts up every fall. For one week every September-ish, you’ll notice your favorite personal finance blogs get eerily quiet. Then, they re-emerge, but they’re not talking about money anymore. Instead, they’re blasting your news […]

Picture this: you’re asleep in bed at 2:00 in the morning, when you’re startled awake by a crash. It’s pitch black outside, but in the darkness you can barely make out two men outside, flashlights in hand. They’re banging at your door, and you realize you might be getting robbed. Your heart is pounding. In […]

We’ve almost closed the books on 2016. Welcome 2017. Does anyone else have a brief moment of panic every time the year rolls over? It seems like yesterday when 2017 was just some unrealistically far-off year I entered as my credit card’s expiration date. Now, 2017 is (almost) today. The future is here. 😮 At […]