Managing Finances as a Family

Organization is the Key to Financial Success
Managing Finances as a Family

Organization is the Key to Financial Success

I’ve always loved to organize things. My idea of playing with my kids is sorting their toys into the correct bins, color coding the Legos and setting up new storage systems. I truly believe that there is a correlation between having an organized method of tracking your

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If you're a stay-at-home mom deciding whether to go back to work or someone looking to pick up a second job, this is EXACTLY how to calculate the numbers! A lot more will change than you realize, and of course taxes are the biggest!
Managing Finances as a Family

How Much is A 2nd Income Really Going To Bring In?

I left my job as a CPA when my husband received an international business assignment back in 2011. While I’ve kept up on my CPA license, I have yet to go back into the full-time working world. Now that my husband is more established in his career

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Teaching kids about money is SO important. This is a great alternative to using a cash allowance system which requires going to the bank often, having exact change, etc. LOVE this.
Managing Finances as a Family

How To Teach Kids to Track Their Income & Expenses

One of my biggest priorities as a parent is to raise money-smart kids. However, sometimes I get caught up in the day-to-day aspects of teaching my three kids such as trying to get them to help around the house, complete their schoolwork and of course disciplining them

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10 Simple Ways to Teach Kids About Money | It's up to us as parents to educate our kids about personal finances. I love these ways we can incorporate learning about money into everyday life.
Managing Finances as a Family

10 Simple Ways to Teach Young Kids About Money

One of the reasons I decided to start a personal finance blog is that I feel so much disappointment that we don’t teach our future generations about money in our formal education system.  When I started learning in-depth about personal finance, the more I learned the more

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I’m Kathryn Hanna and I love to budget (really, I do!), build spreadsheets, and spend money on travel, sewing supplies & good chocolate.

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