by Allison Bishop | Nov 9, 2021 | Family, General
I got my Holiday Club check in the mail a couple of weeks ago. You might know what I’m talking about – through my local bank I have an automatic transfer set up so that every time we get a paycheck, a small amount is transferred into our Club account. The year starts...
by Allison Bishop | Jul 23, 2020 | Family, General
How to combine finances is a question that every couple has to deal with when getting married or otherwise merging their lives. [Photo by Everton Vila on Unsplash] There’s a spectrum of how joint or separate your finances can be. and you can choose to fall anywhere on...
by Allison Bishop | Jun 19, 2019 | Family, General, Uncategorized
So I walked into Bed Bath & Beyond last week and was immediately dazzled by all the Beautiful Things. I could get gorgeous deck furniture! Colorful wine glasses! Throw pillows in so many fun colors and patterns! I could imagine my house with these fresh, bright,...
by Allison Bishop | Feb 24, 2019 | Family, General, Starting Out
I’ve been a little bit obsessed with the idea of minimalism recently. First, I watched a documentary on Netflix called “Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things” directed by Matt D’Avella. One of the people interviewed was Joshua Becker, the author of a...
by Allison Bishop | Jan 10, 2019 | Family, General, Starting Out, Uncategorized
I’ve been reading news stories over this past week about furloughed government workers struggling to pay their bills. Because they’re not being paid, they don’t have the money to pay daycare costs, their car payment, or their rent, and a lot of them are feeling...
by Allison Bishop | Nov 27, 2018 | Family, General
I recently had to advise a couple on an issue that I hadn’t faced before: out-of-control Amazon spending. This is a relatively new phenomenon in our culture. It wasn’t very many years ago that buying products off the internet was a new concept. In the early 2000s,...