In cased you missed it, my last article was all about how to start financial planning in your twenties (which is where I am now). But one thing I’m always …
How To Start Financial Planning In Your Twenties
Here’s the secret to financial planning: there is no one “right financial plan.” Everyone’s life goals will look different. However, just because it’s not a “one-size fits all” model with …
The Personal Finance Tool That Will Define Your Life
It’s hard to think that only one personal finance number will define the entire course of your life, but it’s true. There’s only one. And it’s not your credit score. …
7 Ways to Manage Your Personal Finance (On Your Lunch Break!)
For most of us, it’s so easy to assume that managing our personal finances as an adult means we have to be sitting at our kitchen table with a spouse, …
10 Assumptions About Adulthood Finances That Are Holding Millennials Back (and what to do about it!)
I’m not sure where I got all these ideas of adulthood. I think it’s been a combination of different people, society, and the internet that’s dictated my ideas on what …
50/30/20 Budgeting: Exactly How Much I Spent and Saved in 2018
With the new year coming to an end, I audited all of my expenses according to the 50/30/20 budget rule. I not only talk about this budget rule, I show you how it’s applied to me!
The reason I started MLA is because I wanted to create an honest personal space where I could share exactly what I’m doing to get through adulthood instead just giving some vague or generic advice. Instead of just talking about the 50/30/20 budgeting rule, I wanted to see how it applied to my year-round expenses.
Why I Don’t Chase Early Retirement
If you are also in the sphere of personal finance, a common term that is thrown around is #FIRE, which stands for Financial Independence and Retire Early. I’m all for the idea of financial independence but early retirement is not for me.