Sell Your Hot Dogs at a Loss

How we spend money is as important as how we save it. Because we don’t express our truest selves with a 401(k) statement the way we can with a debit card. What is the meaning of money if you never happily spend it? In Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain famously wrote, “Your body is not aContinue reading “Sell Your Hot Dogs at a Loss”

How to Stop Carrying Too Much Financial Anxiety

Your heart starts racing when a credit card rep calls about a payment you accidently missed, and then you turn on the news to see the stock market plummeting 10%, so you log into your 401(k) account in a panic as you berate yourself for not saving more and then wonder whether to sell yourContinue reading “How to Stop Carrying Too Much Financial Anxiety”

Minding Your Blind Spots

Your greatest financial ally could be the person you share your bed with. One reason people make costly mistakes is blindness. I am blind; you are, too. We’re all blind, in some way. And we don’t know it. Except for the self-aware, humble ones. Horror legend Stephen King has written around 50-60 bestselling novels andContinue reading “Minding Your Blind Spots”