Written by Charlie Park of Pear Budget. Last week, Tsh shared her story of how to get a mortgage without a credit score. I loved her post, and am impressed by how intentional she and Kyle are about paying off their new mortgage. “But money’s tight!” You’re saying. “I don’t have any extra cash to [...]

Something big quietly happened in our household last week. Remember a few months ago, I shared why we don’t play the credit card game? And that I know a big reason people reluctantly play the credit card game is because they want a good FICO score in order to buy a house? But that it [...]

Written by money contributor Charlie Park of Pear Budget. Often, introductions to budgeting make it sound soooo simple: “What do you make each month? Divide it up. Boom! Done!” There are a number of flaws with that — you probably don’t know what you actually spend money on, you probably aren’t factoring in that dishwasher [...]

On Friday, Crystal guest posted about a topic that in the four years of writing Simple Mom, I haven’t dared touch with a ten-foot pole: credit cards. But she was willing, and I love and share most of her sentiments, so I’m honored that she tackled the somewhat eggshell-walking topic. And after reading the many [...]

Written by money contributor Charlie Park. A couple of years ago, I was reading an article about money and sending kids to college. “Blah blah blah,” it went (more or less), “and you should stick the money in a 529.” “Oh, man,” I remember thinking. “A ‘529’? What the heck is that?” I got really [...]