Ashley

Sunday Update

Happy Sunday! I don’t have my “what I spent money on” post ready to put up today so I decided to do a little update instead. I will resume personal finance related posts sometime this week. I decided to change around my home page a little bit. I don’t like using stock photos on myContinue reading “Sunday Update”

A Few Ways I Save Money

I’ve been debating on some topics to write about lately and things I do to I save money seems like a good one. I might not cover everything in this post so maybe there could be another one like this in the future. The main thing I do to save money might seem a bitContinue reading “A Few Ways I Save Money”

What I Spent Money on from January 1-12

So, in order to help myself with budgeting and staying on track this year, I’m going to post what I spend on things every so often. Then at the end of the month, I can compare that to what my budget was. I might be specific with some of it but I also might not.Continue reading “What I Spent Money on from January 1-12”

EveryDollar

Happy Friday! Recently, I decided to install the EveryDollar app to help out with my budget. Where was this when I decided to start budgeting? It is exactly what I was looking for in a budgeting app! It’s easy to navigate and I don’t have to connect my various accounts to it to use theContinue reading “EveryDollar”

2020 Sinking Funds and Savings Goals

I wanted to write down what some of my savings goals are for this year. This will actually be my first year of saving money consistently so I am pretty pumped about all of this. I think it’s a good change for me. Anyway, my first goal that I want to save for is theContinue reading “2020 Sinking Funds and Savings Goals”

January 2020 Budget

As promised, today I am going to share my budget for this month. One thing I have decided not to share for now is my income. My budget might be enough for some people to guess what I make but I don’t really want to put that number out there for now. I generally doContinue reading “January 2020 Budget”

Heading into 2020

Happy New Year! I think to start this off, I am going to briefly talk a bit about what led me down the path to personal finance and trying to achieve financial independence. Like I said in my first blog post, I moved out of my parents house in December of 2017 with pretty muchContinue reading “Heading into 2020”

Why I’m Starting This Blog

Before I dive into this whole blogging thing, I decided to post a brief little explanation about why I am starting on this journey. I have a really hard time talking this kind of stuff out with people. I want to, but I’ve always been a bit of a people pleaser so it’s hard forContinue reading “Why I’m Starting This Blog”

First Post/Introduction

Hi, my name is Ashley and this is my first post here on my new blog. I recently embarked on a journey to better understand my personal finances and decided that I would like to document it as I go along. So, I am mostly writing this all out for my own benefit but ifContinue reading “First Post/Introduction”