Intentional Living

To “live intentionally” means to live according to your values and beliefs.  I believe when we commit to being more thoughtful in how we spend our time and our money we can overcome the overwhelm, reduce financial stress, and live a more purposeful life.

Intentional living allows us to take better care of our minds and our bodies, and in turn, better care of those around us.

Here you’ll find content to help you spend less time and money on the things that matter less so you can create margin in your life and your budget to spend more on the things that matter most.

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Exhausted Tenant Says a Portal Glitch Double Charged His Rent and Both the Bank and Leasing Office Are Refusing to Fix the Mess

You pay rent the same way you always do. Log into the portal. Submit the payment. Move on with your day assuming everything worked the way it should. Then a few hours later, you check your bank account and realize the system didn’t process your rent once. It processed it twice. That’s exactly what happened…

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Worried Daughter Was Pressured To Invest in Her Mom’s Primerica Business at 18 and Now She’s Not Allowed To Close the Account

Turning eighteen is usually the moment people begin making their own financial decisions, but it can also be the moment when other people start guiding those decisions in ways that are hard to question at the time. That’s what happened to one young woman whose introduction to investing came through a company her mother worked…

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Frustrated Son Says His Dad Reported a Fraudulent Check Within Days but the Credit Union Took the Money Back Anyway and Says it May Never Recover the Funds

You expect a credit union to protect your money, especially when the fraud is obvious and you report it quickly. If someone steals from your checking account by passing a fake check, most people assume the financial institution will investigate it, confirm the fraud, and make the account whole again. That’s what one family thought…

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Frustrated Parent Says Their Child Never Lived in the Assigned Dorm but the College Is Still Charging Thousands for the Room

You expect the logistics of college housing to be fairly straightforward. Once your child gets accepted and commits to a school, you fill out the housing forms, choose the dorm options, and the university assigns a room. It becomes just another line on the tuition bill that you factor into the overall cost of sending…

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Stunned Husband Says His Wife Found Out Her Mother Has Been Receiving Her Late Father’s Annuity Payments All This Time

You grow up believing certain financial things are settled. A parent passes away, assets get handled, and whatever was meant to support the surviving family member eventually reaches the right place. At least that’s what most people assume happens. But sometimes years pass before anyone looks closely enough to realize something isn’t right. That’s the…

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Angry Bride Says Her Bridesmaid Never Showed Up on the Wedding Day After She Paid for the Dress and Now She’s Considering Suing

You spend months planning a wedding, and somewhere along the way you start relying heavily on the people you asked to stand beside you. Bridesmaids are supposed to be part of the inner circle through the entire process. They help with events, show up for the rehearsal, and most importantly they’re there on the day…