Standard financial advice applies: reduce expenses, increase income, avoid debt, work harder, watch the budget. *I am not a financial professional. I am not a financial wizard. Here’s what I’ve done (or what I’m still doing) for my own financial well-being. Feel free to play along at home, (at your own risk)… You Need A…

Before I run off and start trying to get gigs on Fiver and before I bring my car into Uber to be an approved driver, I should probably take a look at what I already have going for me and what I have to work with. Previously, I listed the skills and assets that my…

1. Denial: How am I going to pay for this? College can’t really cost this much. I can’t afford this. There’s just no way. I literally cannot believe that college costs have soared so high since I was in school. 2. Anger: How am I going to pay for this? This is ridiculous! It’s just…

I don’t know if I can precisely describe the feeling when you realize that your child is about to take on an astronomical amount of debt in educational loans. While discussing our options, financial aid, and college costs — I honestly had clips of Apollo 13 running through my head. Our options are: Take on…

—with apologies to Douglas Adams— My daughter has a problem, which is this: she needs a college education. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these are largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it isn’t the small green pieces of…