Author: Melissa

College kids all over the country are graduating this weekend, and I know that at least a few of those bright-eyed newbies are looking toward the future: Getting jobs, renting apartments/buying condos, and thinking about their student loans coming due. (Sorry if I caused a mild panic attack for anyone.) Ah, those four (or five or six) years were worth it, though, right? However, I bet more than one of those students is thinking, “Man, oh, man, I shouldn’t have taken out that student loan to finance my spring break (or my beer belly).” Some of them have college...

Save for retirement. Save for an emergency fund. Save for your kids’ college educations. Pay your bills.    Exhausting, isn’t it? Yes. That overwhelming list makes it so easy to say, “There are too many buckets and not enough money to fill them all!” What if you could find your extra money and stuff all it into your vacation fund, or your rainy day fund, or invest it, for heaven’s sake? You may be thinking, “But I don’t have any extra!” Oh, but you do. David Bach, author of the book The Automatic Millionaire, coined and trademarked the term...