personalfinance
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6 Ways to Live Your Rich Girl Life
Deprivation can lead to one of two things: Depravedness or hunger. For most of the 25 years of my existence, I lived on the brink of ‘just enough’. Thank god, I had parents who loved me and provided a stable home. Although we didn’t have fancy vacations in Hawaii, and…
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Money Talks for Women: It’s Hard Being Feminine Without Funds
Despite what you see online, I would argue for the most part, that women are not intrinsically as financially motivated as men. In a study done by Illuminate Ventures, 15% of male entrepreneurs were financially motivated to start companies as opposed to only 2% of females. How we’re raised, what…
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Personal Finances: What They Didn’t Tell You in School
The word trauma that is passed around in self-help circles these days mainly covers relationship stemmed trauma— family, friendships, and significant others. They never really talk about a type of trauma that’s actually very prevalent, even in higher-income cities (actually more likely in higher-income per capita cities). Financial trauma, in…
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5 Alternative Investments To Stocks
In my parent’s generation, saving took more paramount importance over investing. Investing in itself implies that you have extra income to bet on the stock market, and for my parents, every dollar either went to my education savings, the mortgage, necessities, or the occasional trips back home (to Taiwan). I,…
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The Best Money Mistakes I Made Growing Up
Growing up in an Asian household meant that money was rarely discussed. Before I was born, my parents went from having absolutely nothing in a foreign country to owning a humble little apartment in a developing suburban area in three years. I never saw a lot of my parents growing…
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