The D.C. area was hit by some pretty nasty storms yesterday. I hope all my fellow D.C. bloggers made it through unscathed.
I was one of the lucky ones. My power was only out for about 6 hours, and my car managed to stay quite safe in its parking space, even though there are a bunch of trees down around it.
My cable, however, has not yet returned, so it might be a quiet few days from me until I have regular internet access again. Blogging from work is probably not the best plan of attack!
Megan is a 40-something government employee in the Washington, DC area. She got interested in Personal Finance when she got out of college and realized that her paycheck wasn’t going to go as far as she had hoped. Since starting this blog, she has managed to buy a house and make a solid start on her retirement goals, and hopes to help others do the same. Here is her story:
In 2007, I was a gainfully employed 20-something with no debt but not a lot of knowledge about personal finance. It was a co-worker’s comment about Roth IRAs that sent me to the internet, searching for information. It was then that I realized that I really didn’t know a whole lot about personal finance and that my current financial situation was due a lot to inherent frugal tendencies, generous family members, a fear of debt, and good luck. While that was working for me, clearly I needed a better plan.
While I had no debt, I was also pretty much living paycheck to paycheck and not worrying about going over budget (I say this as if I had a real budget) because I had an emergency fund set aside to cover any overages.
Except that’s not what an emergency fund is for.
So I did a lot of research, read a lot of blogs, and decided that I needed a plan. I needed to budget. I needed to know what I was spending my money on. I needed to prepare for the future.
I decided to create a blog not only to make myself accountable to others but also to share the knowledge that I gained along the way. I’ve learned so much from my fellow bloggers, and I hope that my readers can find something useful in what I have to share as well.
I read that one was killed in the storm. How devastating. Glad to hear you are ok and hope other bloggers in the DC area are safe.
oh man, yeah i heard about this while we were in the caribbean!! scary 🙁 Def. glad i missed that one.
it’s also funny that it’s HOTTER here than over there! haha…