What to Consider Before Buying Your First Home

Buying your first home is a seriously exciting milestone, but before you receive the keys and walk into your new abode, there are some things you need to consider as you go through the home buying process. In this post, we’ll talk about all of the things you need to know about buying your first

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6 Ways Sustainability Can Save You Money

With glaciers melting, forests shrinking, and animal species becoming extinct, the world needs your help, and so does your wallet. Living a sustainable life not only helps our planet drastically, but it can also help you save money. Below, we give you 6 of the best sustainable practices you can implement in your daily life

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Your Saving Options Seem Too Drastic? Well Here’s How You Can Be Smarter

In this life, we all have things we cherish and want to be able to know how to handle. Our projects, each other, and precious moments just to name a few. We know that, if we’re not careful, we can lose the things we have and potentially never regain them ever again. A little lapse

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How to Save Money on Your Energy Bills in 4 Simple Steps

When it comes to your monthly expenses, your energy bills represent a significant outlay. The combined total for your gas and electricity can be sky high, especially if you don’t know how to economise. One of the simplest ways to minimise your expenditure is by becoming more energy efficient. Not only is this beneficial to

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How To Save Money Whilst Getting Your College Degree

Getting your college degree is one of the primary things that will shape your future, and your earning potential when you go into the world of work. Not only this, but it will also enable you to foster the values of independence and time-keeping, and it will also help you to adapt to a multitude

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How Ebates Helped Me Save on Redecorating My Living Room

This year has been defined by the word: Reinvent. I attribute my new attitude toward life and money in part to the major breakthroughs I had while writing heal your relationship with money (you need a copy in your life!!) and lecturing about how to… well,  heal your relationship with money, lol. Inspired Action While

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How to Host Your First Live Event On a Tight Budget and Make $1,000 In the Process

Earlier this year, I hosted my first live event in honor of launching my first book, Unmasking the Strong Black Woman.  With a full-time job and an infant, I thought it was virtually impossible to do so, but I was wrong. My first event was well attended and lucrative. Here are the various steps I

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The Real Costs of Extreme Couponing and How to Avoid Them

Extreme couponing is considered a money hack, but, quite frankly, isn’t a very good one. A money hack, by its nature, is supposed to be a simple, effective and usually painless act to reduce the amount of money one spends. With the exception of saving coupon holders a few bucks or even hundreds of bucks,

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Single and Saving in the City

“If you are currently seeing more than one person, schedule your hair appointments first and then the date, not the other way around!”

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How to Financially Prepare for Maternity Leave

Once my husband and I decided that we wanted to start a family, I started thinking about ways that I could stay home with our baby for the first six months on her life, even if it were to be unpaid. In this piece, I talk about the various ways to leverage baby showers, family

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