by Lori Atwood | May 5, 2022 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other, Teaching Children about Personal Finance
We all want to do the right thing. We all want to save appropriately, spend less, and have money for important or emergency expenses, but we don’t. We have all the right intentions, and many of us know what the right strategy is and yet we get tripped up. Sometimes...
by Lori Atwood | Feb 12, 2022 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other
For my last post before summer break (I will be back posting in September, as usual), I want to talk about the saying, “no good deed goes unpunished.” That old saw holds up in personal finance, too, in that there is a lot of great advice out there, but...
by Lori Atwood | Jan 7, 2015 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other
In this season of new year’s resolutions, why can’t people stick to their great intentions for the year? Well, one answer might be that these intentions require commitment and discipline. Those are hard. People feel entitled to a little bit of easy fun;...