It’s Thanksgiving week, 2022. It’s been months since I last logged into WordPress and a year and a half since my last published post. This is not my first attempt to write an “I’m back!” post, nor, I’m sure, will it be the last. So this post? It just is. No pressure for myself, no promises for the future. Just …
From Proposal to ‘I Do’: My Wedding Timeline
When I first got engaged in 2019, I knew I wanted to track the wedding planning journey. From cost considerations to a vendor search and all the planning in between, there’s a lot of work that can go into two people getting married. It took 2 years for this post to go from draft to publish. Of course, the ending …
The Quest for Generational Wealth
Coming from a working-class background, no one teaches you about money or gives you a framework for understanding it. All you have are examples of family members working minimum wage jobs while reinforcing the importance of going to college, getting a degree, and ultimately getting a “good-paying” job.
Bank of America auto pay: How to set up AutoPay for your credit cards
If you’re like me, you want to manage your finances as simply as possible, with minimum room for human error. To me, this includes setting up auto pay on every new credit card I open. Over the years, I’ve found Bank of America’s auto pay set up flow to be one of the worst out there. It took me much …
Long time, no see
Hey, friends It’s been a while. In fact, it’s been a year to the day since I published my last post on this blog. My timing can’t be any better. Where have I been? What have I been doing? What is happening to Cash Fasting? So much has happened since April 2019, but at the same time, much has been …
Expect the Unexpected
2019 has been an unexpected year of change. With the way it started, I knew it was going to big, but I couldn’t have foreseen just how wild it was going to get. In the first four months of this year alone, I: Took a two-week trip to Japan (and got engaged!) Wrapped up a lucrative contracting gig Started a …
In Want of A Different Life
This is my first week back as a full-time employee after five stressful, blissful, wonderful months of unemployment, part-time, and contract working. As I write this, I’ve officially completed my first five days, and it’s been a whirlwind. View this post on Instagram The next stage in my work life: this is the view from my new desk at my …
The Cost Breakdown of a 2-Week Trip through Japan
Two years ago for Christmas, I gifted Ian a round-trip flight to anywhere in the world. I had enough points saved up thanks to work travel. When I was laid off from my previous job in October, we quickly realized that my newfound time gave us the opportunity to do what we had been eager to do for a while; …