As I mentioned in my earlier post, I am on holiday. While I thought being away from work would mean higher productivity for EM, sadly that hasn’t happened. My brain seems to be taking a holiday from all possible productive work. However, the good thing about money is that I am nowhere close […]
What My 6 yo Nephew Taught Me About Our Money Instincts
I have been fortunate to have been spending some quality time with my six (or six and one quarter, as he now puts it) year old nephew. On my holiday, we have been playing, looking around, sightseeing, eating yummy food and just spending quality time. On one of the days out, we were waiting […]
Book Club – Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money
Another Friday and another book. This time I finally read a book by one of the really famous money guys – Dave Ramsey! However, since debt is not the single point focus of this blog, I decided to swerve a little from the popular favorite Dave Ramsey book of the Total Money Makeover and instead […]
Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Salary
It’s that time of the year again when the office is beset by rumors, whispers and overall a lot of anxiety. For a long time now, April to me has meant a time period of appraisals and the culmination of a year’s hard work into one number. Appraisals also go hand-in-hand with the annual […]
7 Things I don’t Like Spending Money On
Since the time I have been in the personal finance blogosphere, one thing I have tried hard to adopt is a conscious spending of my money. I am not someone who believes in extreme frugality. Even if I try to go there, my husband literally wrestles me out of it. However, me and my […]
Follow Friday – Frugalwoods
It is probably the season of book releases in the world of Personal Finance Blogs. One of the most talked about, heatedly discussed book for some time now has been the book by the lady behind the blog – Frugalwoods. Honestly, I like my money blogs to be well rounded and talking about all […]
Women Give 2018
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. – Gamaliel Bailey Growing up in a third world country like India, it is almost impossible to not see the suffering and the impoverishment of a major part […]
The Complete Guide to Home Loans
One of the biggest and most popular financial products which actually has the might and the size to shake economies is Home Loan. Any rate change for home loans makes the front page of newspapers. The inability of a large number of people to pay it back in 2007 in the US was enough […]
Book Club – The Little Book That Builds Wealth
The book that I picked up to talk about today is – The little book that builds wealth. The sub-title of the book puts forth what you can expect from the book quite clearly – The knockout formula for finding great investments. The book is written by Pat Dorsey and was first published […]
Dating and Money
For a long time, I had been considering the idea of exploring the multiple facets of money in the life stage of dating. Granted, my ideas and personal experience about dating might be a little outdated considering it’s now almost 7 years since I first started dating my husband and almost 4 since we got […]