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Five personal finance confessions

April 27, 2022

Welcome to another edition of personal finance confessions — a totally irregular recap of how I'm managing my money lately.

Welcome to another edition of personal finance confessions — a totally irregular recap of how I’m managing my money lately.

This is my fourth confessions post. Here are the others: one | two | three.

This round features five confessions. Much like the first three posts, calling these confessions is likely a little dramatic.

Here we go.

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Five personal finance confessions

December 3, 2020

Personal finance confessions is my irregular recap of things you might not know about how I'm managing our money. Here's the Q4 2020 recap.

Welcome to another edition of personal finance confessions — a totally irregular recap of things you might not know about how I’m managing my money lately.

This is my third confessions post — you can find the first two here and here.

This round features five confessions (although much like the first two posts, I still think calling them personal finance confessions is a bit dramatic).

Here we go.

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Eight personal finance confessions

December 12, 2019

Personal Finance Confessions: We are spending money we don't have yet

Welcome to another edition of personal finance confessions — a totally irregular recap of things that you might not know about how I’m managing my money lately.

This is the second time I’ve done a post like this (you can find the first one here). Last time, I had four personal finance confessions to share; this time, we’re up to eight.

And, like the first time, I still think calling them personal finance confessions is a bit dramatic, but…I’m going with it.

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Four personal finance confessions

September 12, 2019

Four personal finance confessions for the last half of the year

To be honest, it’s a bit dramatic to call these personal finance confessions.

When I started Our Bill Pickle, the first thing I wrote about was the importance of being transparent when you write about money on the internet. At the time, I focused on being honest about privilege when it comes to personal finance.

That idea of privilege is relevant to this post, too. These “confessions” stem from one thing: how my privilege allows me to change my financial plans without disastrous consequences.

And heaven knows there were times this summer where my original financial plans went out the window.

So, in the spirit of keeping it real, here are a few personal finance “confessions” from the last few months.

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