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Why SallieMae is a F***ing Shark: Part 1
I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life when I was 23 years old. I’m still paying for it. In fact, I’ll be paying for it until I am 60. I got a private student loan through SallieMae to finance...
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Why Sallie Mae is a F***ing Shark: Part 2
Our last installment left our heroine standing by the kitchen sink holding a five-month-old baby and a 100k student loan freshly placed into forbearance. Six months later my forbearance ended and it...
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So there I was. I had two little kids, a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old, and a husband working 60-80 hours a week as a history teacher and theatre director for the incredible salary of 30k a year. The...
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How I Feed a Family of Seven for $300 a Month
It’s no secret that we are broke. I’m careful not to use the word “poor”, not just because I think there’s a lot more than money involved in a rich life, but because I had a teacher once explain to me...
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Poor Does Not Equal Lazy & The Truth About Welfare
I am a slow learner, or a glutton for punishment, or maybe just an old-fashioned masochist. Clearly, there is something wrong with me, because, even after my whole personal Internet troll experience, I...
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How I Feed a Family of Seven for $400 a Month – Summer Edition
I had no idea, when I published the original post about how I feed my family on $300 a month, that it would get so much attention. After all, this is not a cooking blog. I’m not a very inventive or...
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How to Talk to Kids About Money (especially when you don’t have any)
I have a confession to make. I’m secretly rooting for the zombie apocalypse. I could do without all the moaning people in various stages of decay, but there is something about the economy of make-do,...
View Article“I’m not gonna travel 10,000 miles to fight other poor people”
Y’all. I gotta be honest. I’m not sure about 2016. We may need a do over. Something big happens, I start thinking about it, and before I can even finish, some asshole shows up with yet another AR-15. I...
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