Ashley is a model living in NYC who loves sharing tips for saving money and advice on enriching your life.
We should all have mentors in life, and they don’t always have to be people you have direct access to. For life advice, I follow Oprah; for relationship advice, apparently I follow a crazy cat lady because I’m still single… but for money advice, I turn to the most successful investor […]
As children, we’re natural risk-takers. We’ll jump into the pool from a 12 foot ledge while our parents watch in horror, we’ll ask strangers wildly inappropriate questions because we just want to know the answer. As we get older, we learn to fear failure and therefore start holding ourselves back […]
When it comes down to it, most of our purchases are fueled by some level of emotion. We buy things that elevate our levels of self-worth, that make us feel cooler or smarter or better looking. Once we find something that we think will do these things for us, we […]
It happens to all of us. We set intentions, we set goals, we talk about how much we want to get things done — but we don’t actually do anything. It doesn’t mean that you’re lazy or bad at prioritizing (skipping your workout to eat delicious, buttery pancakes?) – it […]
Surprise, surprise. Apple has released yet another iPhone that has us lining up at the Apple store like damn fools and looking at our 5S devices that we got less than a year ago with utter disdain. Why Apple? Why do you do this to us? I personally am in no […]
One of the biggest drawbacks of being extremely frugal-minded like myself is that oftentimes you can hold on a little too tight to your money. While this is great in situations where you say no to $650 designer shoes, I’ve learned that I also need to loosen up on my […]
This may be one of the biggest money mistakes that young people make – paying way too much for their apartment. Financial experts agree that no more than 30% of your pre-tax income should go towards your housing expense, although very few of us follow this rule. We want to live […]
