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.
A $65 per person gratuity request on a $150 dinner cruise ticket, delivered verbally by a server right after taking a dinner order that had already been submitted weeks earlier, is the kind of number that makes you wonder if you misheard it the first time. That’s exactly what happened to one family on a…
Being charged for a contract you explicitly said you wouldn’t sign, receiving a welcome email for an agreement you never executed, and then getting passed between departments every time you ask for a copy of the document you supposedly signed is a recognizable pattern from a company with a long history of exactly this kind…
Being told you’re a burden by your own father at 18, while trying to plan a STEM degree on $600 a month with no car and a part-time job that’s about to conflict with your school schedule, is a specific kind of pressure that makes it hard to think clearly about any single part of…
Buying a car in good faith for $3,000 and ending up with a vehicle you can’t register because the title chain was broken before you ever got involved is one of the more frustrating positions a private vehicle buyer can find themselves in. That’s the situation a North Carolina father and son are navigating after…
Studying biology full time while managing an autoimmune disease would be hard enough in a quiet apartment with supportive parents. Doing it in a crowded, chaotic home where both parents treat her as a domestic resource and her education is an interruption to their demands is a different category of difficulty entirely. That’s the reality…
When someone spends $30,000 on a backyard renovation and then needs time to think about a $400 share of a family Airbnb, the gap between those two decisions is hard to explain away as a simple matter of budgeting. That’s the dynamic one family member is trying to make sense of after years of watching…
