personal finance
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Why All the Gen Z Kids Love ‘Soft Saving’ (and How to Do It)
I’ve written before how you should treat your budget like a healthy diet. Sure, you can try intense restriction—like the FIRE movement’s math-heavy approach—to get you an early retirement. But on the other end of the spectrum, you may spiral out into revenge spending, dooming your finances the same way binge-eating can doom your diet.…
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How to Use the 50/15/5 Rule for Saving More Cash
The 50/15/5 rule is a guide to managing your monthly budget while still keeping you on track of your saving goals. Here’s how it works.
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10 Clever Tips That’ll Help You Save Money
While you may already be familiar with some money-saving tactics — such as bringing your lunch to work or buying fewer cups of coffee — there are more creative ways to save money every day that you may not yet be doing. After all, when it comes to your personal finances, every cent does add…
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Escape the ‘Grind Mentality’ and Stop Saving Every Dollar
If you’ve ever come across the internet subculture of motivational speaker entrepreneurs, you know they’re going to advise you to work as hard as you can in your youth to save as much money as possible so that you can one day be 1) very rich and 2) very happy. Tik Tok star Gary Vaynerchuk…