financial fitness
The Fourth Step Towards Financial Fitness
Friday, April 11th, 2008It’s been a few weeks, but I am still helping my friend get on the path to financial fitness. You can read the previous steps here, but in short, so far she has figured out how much debt she has, categorized her expenses to figure out where her money goes, and checked her bills [...]
The Third Step to Financial Fitness
Saturday, March 15th, 2008My friend finally came back to me for the next step on her plan to financial fitness. You can find step one here and step two here.
By this point in time, she had figured out her debts and recorded her expenses for a month. As I recommended, she created categories for herself and [...]
The Second Step to Financial Fitness
Friday, February 29th, 2008As I mentioned in an earlier post, a friend recently asked me for advice on getting herself on the right financial path. Obviously, I’m no expert, but I gave her a few simple steps to get her on the right track. I told her the first step was to figure out what she [...]
The First Step to Financial Fitness
Sunday, February 24th, 2008A friend recently asked me what she could do to take control of her finances. She didn’t bring up numbers, and I wasn’t comfortable asking, but I know that she has a good amount of student loan debt as well as credit card debt. It was clear she wasn’t entirely sure how much [...]