• Health Insurance Benefits: FSA vs HSA

    Let’s talk Health Insurance Benefits! It’s nearly that time of year where we sit down and decide our health coverage for next year, otherwise known as Open Enrollment. If you’re lucky enough to have health insurance benefits through your employer, during Open Enrollment, you may be presented with a variety of plans that your company…

  • An Excellent Tool for Your Savings Goals: Sinking Funds!

    What is a good way to pay for Summer Travel..or any short-term Savings Goal? Use something called Sinking Funds! If you’re unfamiliar, “Sinking Funds” is a term that comes from the corporate business world and is essentially a way of splitting a financial goal up into manageable chunks. This is also a good one to…

  • Summer Travel Hacks!

    With this mini heat-wave we’re experiencing right now in Seattle, it finally feels LIKE SUMMER IS HERE! Let’s talk paying for Summer Travel! Read below for a few tips on doing Summer Travel right. As temps keep climbing, you may have noticed so do the prices on everything lately, leaving 69% of people who had…

  • Why You May See a Dip in Credit Score at Debt Payoff—Don’t Panic!

    If you’ve been paying attention to the last few posts, it’s been a debt-payoff/credit-score-boost focus. For those of you paying down debt, keep it up! For those of you paying down debt with the intention of making a new purchase afterwards, read below for the little-known reality that your credit score may actually take a…

  • Credit Card Debt Payoff Hack!

    As an extension of last week’s Student Loan Payoff Hack, let’s pivot to Consumer Debt! We’re all familiar with pesky credit card debt. Read below for some Consumer Credit Card Debt stats, followed by some tangible tips to pay down your debt faster, and even increase your credit score while doing it! The Data: The…

  • Student Loan Debt Payoff Hack!

    Anyone up for paying down your Student Loans a little faster? If you have Student Loan debt, and you’d like to watch it disappear a little bit quicker, then this hack is for you! The Hack: Make Biweekly Payments on Your Student Loans. How to do it: Take your monthly payment and cut that amount…