personal stories

by Kathryn Vercillo

Looking Back to Look Forward: A Review of My Most Personal Posts I enjoy having the opportunity to share a variety of different thoughts about personal finance here with you each month.... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

10 Things I Do When Money Makes Me Sad I’ve made no secret about the fact that I live with depression. Moreover, depression impacts my finances in a vari... read the story

by Melissa Batai

How Much We Paid for Our Child’s First Year of College The cost of college continues to rise. According to US News and World Report, for 2022-2023, the average cost of in-stat... read the story

by Melissa Batai

3 Financial Mistakes We Made with Our First Child My husband and I were married for three-and-a-half years before we had our first child. I worked full-time as a teacher ... read the story

by Melissa Batai

How Buying an Art Museum Membership Saved Us Money Last year, I bought an art museum membership for our family. However, rather than spending $75 for the family membership... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Path Social Update: I Got a Refund Back in April, I shared with you my Path Social experience. I felt like I had been scammed. I still don’t think th... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Ethical Spending: 10 Areas Where I Want to Invest Over the past few months I’ve repeatedly seen that New Money Goals commercial. People share money goals that relat... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Using a Quarterly Review to Stop Feeling Perpetually Behind the Curve I have felt behind the curve in work (and life) for … well, let’s just say for a long time now. I enc... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

First Book of the Year: And Then We Grew Up I read a lot. I mean, a lot – more than most people I know. Often, I read books related to personal finance, espec... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

I Joined Dressember to Give to Charity Without Spending Money 2020 has been a financially tough year for a lot of people. 2019 was actually really hard for me, because I took on a lo... read the story