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,...
by Allison Bishop | Nov 7, 2017 | General, Uncategorized
Q&A #2: Q: I’m struggling with managing my money. I’m self-employed and my income varies every month. When I work regularly, I make plenty of money to pay my expenses and pay down my debts, but the months I don’t work as much as I’d like to, I struggle to make my...
by Allison Bishop | Sep 29, 2017 | Family, General
Protecting your credit: Worst. Thing. Ever. Who wants to spend even 30 seconds thinking about how vulnerable we are to identity theft? Especially when no one knows what to do and it sounds like a hideously painful process to actually go through. It’s been in the...
by Allison Bishop | Oct 27, 2016 | Family, General, Starting Out, Uncategorized
Here’s a link to an article I wrote about financial mindfulness – paying attention to your money and how it’s working for you. Enjoy! Being Mindful with Your...
by Allison Bishop | Sep 18, 2016 | Family, General
As a parent of four young children myself, I’m very sensitive to the variety of needs pulling at our families’ limited resources. To try to help parents navigate through, I wrote an article on that topic which is published in the new issue of Essential...
