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…
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…
Economic Relief Funds
Any time you’re looking at the prospect of incoming money, that money should have a plan. That’s true if you’re in normal times with a paycheck, getting a bonus or an inheritance, or now as the United States Congress is trying to come up with their economic relief plan that…
Merry Christmas is SECURE’d
December 27th, 2017 was the date the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed in to law. Typically major tax reform is only an every ~30 years affair (with the prior set being in the 1980’s), with some non-trivial bumps every ~10 years. This week, only 2 years later,…
Planning ahead
Thanksgiving is coming. With it, ideally, we’d be hosting and attending various gatherings with family and friends. Planning a meal for the immediate family. Developing a meal plan, making a grocery list, hitting the grocery store. Planning out my cooking timelines, making shelf-stable items in advance, making freezable items in…
Savings planning 2020
I like planning ahead (financial planning, you never would have guessed would you 😛 ). I like being prepared. So when my big vacuum insulated tea thermos was warm on the outside this morning, it messed with my planning. The vacuum seal had broken, and my “holds perfectly in my…