Today I’m heading out for a trip home to visit my family and then a trip to my alma mater for a football game. I haven’t been to my hometown since Christmas, so it will be nice to be back – even though I’ll be back again in December for Christmas. It’s a quick trip, but it’s always nice to get away.
So while I’m gone, play nice in the comments and feel free to dig through the archives to see if you find anything good. There’s got to be something of value in there!
And a note to potential burglars – my roommate is still home (and unemployed, so she’s always home). So your plans to use the internet to find places to burgle won’t work on me!
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.
Enjoy home and homecoming! (You are going back for homecoming and not just a rando football game, right? LOL)
Ouch!
My school doesn’t have an official homecoming. Every weekend is homecoming. I went to… well, let’s just say a university that’s fairly well known nationally, and so football weekends are pretty intense (and fun!) no matter how the team is doing. It’s always a sold-out stadium.
Enjoy!!