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Psychology of Money

Five Tips to Avoid Holiday “Deals”

If you’re feeling the stress of a thousand twinkly lights beating down on you, take heart. Your budget can get you through this season...

Shannon Marie
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December 4, 2017

Why Do You Need a Budget?

As society shifts towards a preference for plastic (and all sorts of other mind-boggling, but frictionless, technologies), we need to be really aware ...

Jesse Mecham
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October 11, 2017

Escaping the Slippery Slope of Debt

Buried under a pile of credit card debt? This Whiteboard Wednesday is for you. Learn how to escape the slippery slope of debt.

Jesse Mecham
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July 26, 2017

Got Budgeting Baggage? Read This.

These books will help you tackle fears, focus on getting out of debt, and get on with life! Start reading and unpack your budgeting baggage!

Lindsey Burgess
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July 18, 2017

8 Ways to Feel Wealthy On A Budget

Feeling deprived is optional! With the right attitude and a little bit of strategically-allocated fun money, you can have plenty of fun on a budget.

Shannon Marie
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July 6, 2017

The More You Budget, The Luckier You Become

The more you budget, the luckier you'll feel, so budget your dollars with so much zeal!

Lindsey Burgess
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March 17, 2017

How Money Can Buy Happiness—Wait, What?

It might be true that money can’t buy love or even happiness, but when you budget toward the things that make you happy, the math checks out.

Ryan Lewis
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March 14, 2017

Bill Me Later, Bill Me More

You don't want to have your priorities forced on you by past you that ran up a big tab that you are stuck paying in the here and now.

Jesse Mecham
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April 5, 2016

Why Debt Gets Us Fired Up

It's a forced obligation. A forced priority. And you have to do something about it. So, the question is just how intense do you want to be?

Jesse Mecham
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February 10, 2016

Want To Be A Better Budgeter? Count Your Blessings

Anything you can do to help yourself feel more gratitude will make you more content. The more content you are the better your budget will be!

Jesse Mecham
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November 23, 2016

How Are Your Emotions Messing With Your Money?

We are emotional with money and is that a bad thing? Or can we operate within the the rules and carry on with our emotional selves?

Lindsey Burgess
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October 3, 2016

Finally! Scientific Proof: Budgeting Leads To Happiness

As a faithful budgeter, who writes about money and priorities nearly every day, I have developed a lot of theories. Now science backs me up.

Lindsey Burgess
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September 30, 2016

The Secret of Contentment

Everything we do at YNAB has a pretty singular goal: To help people reduce financial stress. And one of the best ways we can do that is to make your financial life very boring. Just so incredibly boring. As the boring-ness of your finances increase, so does your contentment, peace, and control.

Jesse Mecham
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August 24, 2016

The Benefits of Living Within Your Means

If you want to successfully live within your means, you need to have a system in place to record, track, monitor, and evaluate your spending.

Jesse Mecham
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August 8, 2006

The Six Levels of Awareness

What do weight loss and money management have in common? Awareness. How powerful is awareness, coupled with nothing else? Very powerful.

Jesse Mecham
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February 9, 2011

Are You Addicted to Getting into Debt?

Are you addicted to getting into debt? Answer these 15 questions: most people addicted to debt will answer “yes” to at least eight of them.

Jesse Mecham
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April 17, 2013

How to Set and Achieve Realistic Financial Goals

It’s that aspirational time of year when we set goals for the following year. But are your goals realistic and achievable?

Jesse Mecham
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December 11, 2013

The Mont Blanc Effect: That Purchase Costs More than You Realize

A boss of mine gave me a very nice gift about 11 years ago: a Mont Blanc pen. Excuse me, I should have said writing instrument. My 21-year old self was impressed. There are a few reasons a gift like that is so exciting: 1) I’d never buy myself one and 2) People would wonder how I ever afforded such a pen.

Jesse Mecham
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November 5, 2013
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