My employer is resuming our 403b/401k match, what do I need to do?
If your retirement contribution match was suspended earlier this year due to COVID-19, it’s possible that that match is resuming, as some companies are feeling more stable on their financial footing. Remember that your employer match is essentially free money that gets put into your retirement account by your employer,…
I paid off my mortgage! Now what?
This isn’t a “what do I do with my money next?” post. This is an important logistical point that is missed by many, and should be done before mentally moving on. First, what is a lien? A lien is essentially a statement that you don’t own an item in its…
Trust and Learning vs Shame and Ignorance
We just talked about how people in the United States would rather talk with their friends about sex than about money. Let’s carry the link between sex and money a little further today. Remember back to sex ed in elementary school, in junior high, with your parents, and possibly also…
Would You Rather Discuss Sex Or Money?
During a mentoring session last week, one of the panel said that in our country people would rather talk about sex than money, because that’s how much emotional baggage there is around money in our country. I thought this was surprising. My groups of friends have discussed money many times…
Start With Why
It’s inevitable, all parents will run into this at some point, today was just my day. The day you catch your kids lying, deliberately, at an age old enough to know both the difference between truth and lie, and old enough to know better. In fact, actually both yesterday and…
Ups and Downs
I was catching up with someone today, entertaining them with stories of parenting while working during the months of stay at home time for COVID-19. Tales of distance learning. Life got a lot easier here once school ended, with my having to manage the executive functioning for the kids. “Where…
Bi-weekly pay and 3 paycheck months
There are many payment models for employees, everything from ride share’s flaunted “cash out up to 5 times per day!” to getting paid once a month is common. In between is getting paid bi-weekly. That usually means getting paid twice a month. But every approximately 6 months, an extra payday…
One stuffie too far
My whole family, like many others across America today, sat down together to watch the second attempt of the Demo-2 NASA/SpaceX collaboration rocket take astronauts Bob and Doug safely and successfully into space. My children, being young, had many questions. Mama, why are they going into space? Mama, what’s it…
Successful space launch
Today Americans watched with bated breath as astronauts Bob and Doug were successfully and safely launched into space. After having had the American space program effectively disassembled after the most recent launch, that of the Atlantis in 2011, it seems like an unlikely place to be. At the same time,…
Dates of Reckoning
One of the advantage of crisis schooling at home is that I often get to listen to what my kiddos are learning, via their distance classes. My big kid had been working through polygons in her math class. Today was the first day of circles; I was really glad we…