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Joanna

  • OFB Interviews: Jessica

    OFB Interviews: Budgeting & Jurrasic Park


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    We’re super excited to be kicking off this new series of interviews with readers who have a financial story to share. We’re starting off with Jessica M. who has a husband in school, a temporary 60% decrease in household income, and yet feels more financial freedom than ever. She has…

  • Monthly Baby Costs: Month One


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    We did it! We survived the first month of parenting for the second time! And… it was actually pretty fun. Okay, fun is a relative term, but the heart eye emoji (😍) times a billion pretty much sums up how we feel about our little one-month-old. For Sally’s first year,…

  • Is Working Full Time a Terrible Investment?

    Is Working Full Time a Terrible Investment?


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    A while back, Johnny and I read an interesting article, and it’s stuck with us since. The article sells the idea that working for someone else has a capped upside and an unlimited downside. And that the only way to be truly rich (both in money and life) is to…

  • Tracking Expenses

    The One Thing More Important Than Budgeting


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    Throwing out a headline like this one is pretty much blasphemy for a supposed “budgeting” site. If you know anything about us, we sing the original Queen B(udget) praises every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Did we just clickbait you? No, no, no. We’d never subject you…