Carnival of Personal Finance #161: The "Feeling Renewed" Edition
Happy Monday and welcome to the 161st Carnival of Personal Finance! This week’s theme is renewal, because I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. It’s been a central focus of my site, “The Budgeting Babe” since I started blogging in 2004 with a little savings, a lot of debt and a weakness for power [...]
Changes
Phew! I’ve been making changes to the site all day to make it easier to navigate. I’ve been wanting to make these changes for like two years but no one would help me (cough, cough, design school brothers) so I took it on myself. I even took the new header pic of myself! I’m pretty [...]
Quote of the Day
Just read this and I liked it, so I wanted to share: “The successful women I know in business, academia and elsewhere think of themselves as leaders who happen to be women” not as female executives, female college presidents or female politicians, says Nancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School professor. Certainly timely and thought-provoking for [...]
High-flying, risk-taking women
I have a secret, and it’s time I came clean. This will shock absolutely no one who reads my blog regularly, but growing up, I was a cheerleader. From fifth grade all the way through my senior year of high school, pleated skirts, pom-poms, glitter and spirit sticks ruled my life. Oh, sure, I considered [...]
I’m hosting Monday’s Carnival of Personal Finance
I’ve fallen off the bandwagon lately, I know. My posts haven’t exactly been compelling or personal finance-related… they’ve just been about how I spend my money on things like sandals that break and bars that offer drink specials. And while it’s nice that at least some of you care about where I spend my weekends [...]
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