Comments on Feminist Finance: 2009 Financial Goals

Feminist Finance, I've been reading you for severa...

2009-01-28T02:04:00.000-06:00

Feminist Finance, I've been reading you for several months. I don't remember how I stumbled upon the site. Anyway, thanks so much for setting such a good example. Thanks also to Shiner for agreeing to let you blog about his financial affairs. I think if it had just been you, I would have thought, "Well, her salary is clearly so much higher than mine...it's not realistic for me to make the same kinds of saving and budgeting goals." But knowing that Shiner managed to squeeze that much debt-repayment money out of a salary that's likely a lot closer to mine made it harder for me to put off getting my financial act together.

Thanks to you both, I'm in the process of finally maxing out my IRA for the first time, and I'm making a plan for saving a several-months-of-expenses cushion.

I'm currently saving up enough for two years livin...

2009-01-27T18:29:00.000-06:00

I'm currently saving up enough for two years living expenses. Its scary times for sure when you don't know if you'll be out of work for a full two years! Ughh.

On my site, I advocate finding money within your c...

2009-01-27T17:39:00.000-06:00

On my site, I advocate finding money within your current budget to "pay yourself" If you made coffee at home rather than buying it at the local coffee shop, "pay yourself" that $4 straight in to your savings account. Read my article (linked here) to read the rest.

I don't know if you take requests or not, but woul...

2009-01-27T13:28:00.000-06:00

I don't know if you take requests or not, but would you be open to doing a series on designing a budget for different income levels?