Tag: personal finance
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How the 5 Love Languages Impact Personal Finance
We all have different ways of showing and receiving love. Some prefer words of affirmation, while others prefer acts of service. There are five main love languages, and most millennials know theirs from various online tests but have you ever wondered how our love languages influence our financial decisions? Who would have thought that our…
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Costs of Infertility
10 years ago we decided on our future children’s names and then we waited. Planning, saving, paying our way through university, “doing the right thing” and waiting until we were financially able to have our mini-us. Well, infertility is a B*TCH. 18 months ago we discussed our financial status and 5 year plan. 16 months…
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May 2023 – 1099 Income KDP + Kindle Vella
May saw a significant decrease in income due to not having published anything since around March. This is because I was in the middle of moving cross country and did not have time to do much editing. However one of my stories has about 13 chapters pending editing that I’m working my way through. To…
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May 2023 – 1099 Dividend income
In may, our level of dividend investment dwindled as we suffered a minor income set-back which you can read more about in my post covering predatory employers and had to adjust our budget to protect our net worth. However we’ve still managed to grow this investment/income category! This time April 2022 we were earning maybe…
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Say “No” to Abusive Employers
Fellow Millennials, I’m confident you know how it is. The ever present abusive employers that feed off our life energy. You land a new job, ignore the warning signs and try to give the employer the benefit of the doubt. But what happens when they don’t give you the same courtesy? The younger generation, Gen…