Budget Expenses Magazine Retirement 
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MARCH 20, 2024
As the founder of a financial coaching enterprise called She’s a Money Boss , she’s not teaching people how to scrimp and save and budget their way to financial freedom. This method has worked for her for years and takes the stress out of large or unexpected expenses. I don’t want a budget, actually.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.
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AUGUST 2, 2021
For some people, that might be doubling down on a budget to track your spending. Continue to check in with yourself on the practical matters like how your brokerage and retirement accounts are progressing, but also remember to check in with how you’re feeling about the situation, and if anything keeps recurring for you.
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OCTOBER 31, 2022
It’s become more difficult in the past year, however, to know what your expenses will be each month—and that makes it all the more challenging to stick to a budget. In the past year, two dynamics in the broader economy have made it especially difficult to stick with a budget and avoid racking up debt.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.
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JULY 21, 2021
I know that might not sound like much for an emergency fund, but the purpose of this is just to give you a buffer for any unexpected expenses that come up while you’re paying off debt. This should be enough money to cover three to six months of basic living expenses you’d need if you were to lose your job or have another major life event.
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JULY 25, 2022
I’m no stranger to setting lofty money goals : At 9 years old I became cognizant of the idea of college—a seemingly far-off milestone that my parents described as “important” and “expensive”—and decided I needed to proactively save money for my college education. Plan for retirement.
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