by Financial Wellness DVM | Aug 18, 2021 | General, Kids And Family, Money Talk
A home will likely be the most expensive purchase you will ever make in your lifetime. As much as we’d like to believe that we make our home purchase decisions rationally, who are we kidding? This is a very emotional purchase, and logic flies out the door when...
by Financial Wellness DVM | Jan 8, 2020 | General, Kids And Family, Money And Wellness, Money Talk
Note: This post was originally published in January, 2019. Simplicity. This is what I strive for, with my everyday life and my choices. So back in 2014, when this little book with a long name called “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of...
by RLDVM | Nov 13, 2019 | Kids And Family, Money And Wellness
“Happiness is simply the absence of desire.” This is a quote that I recently read in James Clear’s book Atomic Habits, and it was one of those phrases that made me pause and really think. He goes on to say that happiness is this feeling of contentment. If you are...
by RLDVM | May 29, 2019 | Kids And Family
One of my great inspirations is the story of my grandmother, a woman with grade school education who fled a war-torn country with her four children. She found a life here in the United States, raising them alone on the edge of Harlem in New York City. She worked night...
by Financial Wellness DVM | Dec 14, 2018 | Budgeting/Cash Flow, Kids And Family, Money And Wellness, Money Talk
Coming off the heels of writing a post about setting financial goals for the new year, I came across this blog post by Tiller the same day. First of all, what’s Tiller? Tiller is a budgeting tool that automates your spreadsheets for you. Budgeting apps like...
by Financial Wellness DVM | Dec 8, 2018 | General, Kids And Family, Money Talk
Ever since I started this blog, my kids have definitely noticed that money has become a hot topic around the house. This differs drastically from my own upbringing. Money was never mentioned. My parents never spoke about our own family finances, nor did they talk...
