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A Very Frugal Wedding: Saving on Food and Photos

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 Saving on Wedding Catering and Photography   Set your food budget Wedding food is crazy expensive. Food is often the greatest cost in a wedding budget and can run north of $100 a person. I was a little nervous that we wouldn’t be able to serve great food at our wedding for a reasonable price. With a $10,000 budget and a 110 person guest list, we needed to be way below $100 a person. Even $75 per … [Read more...] about A Very Frugal Wedding: Saving on Food and Photos

10 Tips I Learned From Buying My First Home

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I bought my first home when I was 25 years old. Below are the top 10 lessons I learned from buying a house in my twenties.   1.  Ignore the number on your pre-approval letter. My fiance and I made the mistake of getting loan pre-approval before figuring out our housing budget. We worked with a lender that our friend recommended and were happily surprised to see that we were pre-approved for a $560,000 … [Read more...] about 10 Tips I Learned From Buying My First Home

Investing Advice For Millennials

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I always wanted to invest but the barrier to entry into the investing world always seemed too high for me. Investments were complicated and I thought I needed thousands of dollars that I didn’t have to get started. I put off investing as something I could figure out when I was older and had more money. Then a year and a half ago, at 25, I stumbled upon personal finance blogs that encouraged me to get out there and … [Read more...] about Investing Advice For Millennials

When Debt Comes Back to Haunt You with Parent Plus Loans

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I wrote recently that we paid off $89,000 of debt and now we’re a debt free couple. Turns out that I was a bit premature in that announcement. I had a conversation with my parents that reminded me that they still have Parent Plus loans from my education. Parent Plus loans are loans that parents can take out to help their children pay for their education. Like student loans, Parent Plus loans are becoming a … [Read more...] about When Debt Comes Back to Haunt You with Parent Plus Loans

The 5% Rule and How It Can Get You Ahead at Work

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This is the first part of a multi-post series: The 5 Things No One Tells You About Work That Are Critical to Success.     #1)  5% of the work you do actually matters Consider this scenario: There are two employees in the exact same position, Employee A and Employee B. Employee A is extremely productive and flies through the items in their queue for the week. A is the recognized subject matter … [Read more...] about The 5% Rule and How It Can Get You Ahead at Work

How to Donate Clothes to Goodwill for the Tax Deduction (& Secret Hacks!)

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In the past two weeks, I have donated over 200 items of clothing. I typically donate one or two bags of clothing a year but decided it was go big or go home this year.   I donated 90% of our clothes to Goodwill Before this recent purge, I had no idea how many pieces of clothing I owned. I can tell you now that my fiancé and I had over 200 articles of clothing in our closets. Say what?! I am not … [Read more...] about How to Donate Clothes to Goodwill for the Tax Deduction (& Secret Hacks!)