There is a certain freedom that comes with admitting to myself that I have no money and cannot continue to pretend that I do.

My new strategy is to put my credit cards away and use only my actual income to sustain me.  This is going to be very difficult, since my expenses vastly outweigh my salary.  But I have lived poor before and somewhere along ( Read more... )

So I am in a sticky situation with a friend.  They say never to mix business with personal, and we ignored them ( Read more... )

I hate money.

I hate finances.  I hate percentage rates.  I hate loans and finance charges.  And credit scores.  And the market and how it fluctuates.  And saving and spending.  I hate numbers.  I hate all of it.

But Mike loves all things money.   He knows a lot about it and loves to impart his wisdom about it.  He can talk for hours about what we ( Read more... )