Get Your $hit Together: Personal Finance Articles, Tips & Tricks
A well organized link dump to educate, stimulate, and motivate.
Last Updated: 4/2/18
Remember, Capitalism is the Problem
*Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life
*Buying Coffee Every Day Isn’t Why You’re in Debt
Budgeting 101
*NYT Smart Living: Stop Wasting Money and Finally Start a Budget
*nerdwallet: How to Create a Budget
The 50/20/30 Budget
*Learnvest
*Mint blog
Eating/Cooking on a Budget
*Sunday Meal Prep.
*NYT Cooking Techniques
Cooking on a Budget
*Budget Meal Planning
*7 Food Blogs for Eating on a Budget
Soft Skills and Savings
*10 Bad Financial Habits to Break
*10 Tips to Stay on Budget
*What to Do with $5,000
*How Much to Save, by Age
*Why Have an Emergency Fund, and How to Save for Them
First Time Filing Your Own Taxes
*Yahoo: What I learned…
*Forbes: Beginners Guide to Filing Taxes
Using scanned receipts: Yes, you can!
How long to keep records: it depends
Asking for a Raise/Making More Money
*The Balance: Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Asking for a Raise
*Forbes: 8 Managers Share The Best Way To Ask For A Raise (And Get It)
*Women@Forbes: Money Up (Check out “The Salary Chronicles” series)
Retirement
*Yahoo: Americans Share 3 Big Concerns…
*Business Insider: How Much of Your Income to Save…
*Mr. Money Mustache: Simple Math
*Early Retirement Extreme (ERE)
*MarketWatch: All the money milestones to hit in every decade of your life
Further Exposure to Finance
Articles
*How Stuff Works — Money, Economics Channel
*2016’s Best Personal Finance Blogs (WalletHub)
Books
*Five Best Personal Finance Books (lifehacker)
*The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman
*A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Burton G. Malkiel
Podcasts/Videos
Stuff Mom Never Told You:
*Oprah Wasn’t Built in a Day;
*Money: Men v. Women
*Investopedia, What’s the Economy?
*NPR’s Planet Money
*Bloomberg’s Odd Lots
*Freakonomics: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money…
