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Newliyish married, but the new reality is partner finished law school so going back to the DINK lifestyle. We live in NYC and are lucky to be in a rent regulated apartment. On one hand we realize it’s cheaper to stay there forever, but it’s not the most well maintained building the the amenities aren’t the best… Anyways,...
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Do you track your expenses monthly? Annually? Do you have an app or do you use an excel spreadsheet? Any suggested tools?...
I used to be big fans of Credit Karma and TrueBill but both have sold out to companies I really dislike (essentially the Intuit family of companies). I really dislike Intuit lobbying the US government to keep taxes complicated as well as their mediocre software....
Where all my cash hoarders at and where do you park your savings?...
when i do A for long enough and my overall net worth comes close enough to zero, i switch to B and am only sometimes capable of wrangling it in...
So for our kids, who are still quite young, instead of opening an entire other savings account for them, we decided to do “virtual” savings accounts....
I recently started giving plain text accounting a go. For a long time I did not do any accounting, as my income was high enough to get by perfectly fine, but recently I wanted to get a lot more control over my personal finance in order to easier achieve more long term financial goals....
This is technically a question specific to Canada but maybe it can be applied to other countries as well....
About a year ago I hired a financial planner to manage assets in my retirement accounts but am starting to think about doing it myself....
Curious to see how the community deals with this kind of situation
Looking for a brokerage with functional, individual API access to, at least, account positions, balances, and equity/fund/bond prices. Used to be happy with TDA, but they got bought by Scwab, whose API has been “pending” for six months.
In the US, if you make a lot, are covered by a work retirement account or you contribute to a Roth, you can’t deduct traditional ira contributions right?...
First time poster! Outside of my retirement account provided by work, I’m just beginning to get brave enough to move other money around. I’m very late to the game and pretty scared of gambles....
My family needs a second car. I’m thinking about a used Chevy Bolt or Nissan Leaf so I think the cost will be about $20,000....
And does it multiply while it’s invested in the Roth IRA?
My partner recently started a new job. Prior to her employment I had been paying into my employer personal supplemental insurance as well as spousal insurance. Now that my partner has employer provided and options for employer supplemental life insurance, what should we be looking at doing? Do I stop my spousal life insurance?...
Is it safe to treat stocks and ETFs in my brokerage account as savings and emergency funds as long as I have a significant number of lots with a Stop Loss or Stop Limit Order in place? My Savings Account technically doesn’t cover 3 months of expense, but combined with my brokerage account it does. Is it safe to be have 1 month...
I’m a long time PocketSmith user currently switching to Quicken. PocketSmith is a decent product but has some glaring issues that don’t seem to be on their radar and I feel like my finances have honestly become too complex for PocketSmith’s simplistic philosophy....
Hello! I am looking for some suggestions on supplemental income while I am job hunting. Unfortunately I had to leave my career unexpectedly due to incessant racism and discrimination....
Asking the question as it seems to be a recurrent issue among finance-aware people....
I have a comprehensive financial plan and look to have up to 48k in about one years time saved. With 16k on hand after paying off my student loans this October which will likely start the one year plan....
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In this post, I’ll provide a lot of basic information about investing, with links to additional reading for various concepts. Most of these concepts are not US-centric, though I will be mentioning US-specific details, such as tax-advantaged account types....
Is anyone using Gnucash? I’ve been on a kick of streamlining my finances and want to simplify from my current spreadsheet for tracking expenses. I have seen Gnucash mentioned around and am considering it. Is it easy to use and import transactions from credit cards?...