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It’s My Birthday: Should I Get Botox?

Home Economics No. 16: A Stay-at-Home Mom & a Medical Resident with 2 Kids Living on $77k a Year

Division of Labor No. 12: A Child-Free Couple in Rural Wisconsin

Where do we go from here?

In Her Purse: The Shine Theory Edition

October Receipts

Is everyone but me taking $10,000 vacations?

Division of Labor No. 11: A Single Mom Raising Her Daughter in Jersey City

Home Economics No. 15: Married, 36, and Living in a $3-Million Brooklyn Brownstone on a $837k Joint Income

Let’s Talk About Money In Person

Home Economics No. 14: Married, 45, and Living Outside of Boston on a $151,000 joint income.

How are we supposed to talk to our kids about money?

In Her Purse: The Bad-Ass Mother Edition

September Receipts

Home Economics No. 13: Single, 35, and Living at Home in Phoenix on $93,000 a Year

Home Economics No. 12: A Software Engineer and Stay-at-Home Dad Raising 3 Kids on $205k in the Bay Area

Division of Labor No. 10: Platonic Life Partners Raising a 1-Year-Old Together in Brooklyn

The Power of The Purse

The Mental Load of Feeding a Family

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Division of Labor No. 9: Small Business Owners Raising 2 Young Kids in Bend, Oregon

Home Economics No. 11: Independent Insurance Adjusters Living Full-Time in Their RV on $9,100 a Month

In Her Purse: The Cofounders Edition

Home Economics No. 10: A Tenured Professor Living Upstate on $94k a Year

Division of Labor No. 8: A journalist and a product manager raising a toddler in the Chicago suburbs

In Her Purse: The Cool Girl Edition

Home Economics No. 9: A 30-year-old living in Jersey City on $105k with $26k in credit card debt

The Cost of Having Friends

Division of Labor No. 7: An author/editor and a university administrator raising two small kids in Charlottesville, Va.

Home Economics No. 8: 37-Year-Old Single Mom Living in Albany, NY, on $115,000 a Year

Division of Labor No. 6: Two parents working in ed-tech raising a one-year-old in Birmingham, Ala.

Home Economics No. 7: FIRE family living in Kansas City, Mo., on $125k with a goal of saving $2.5 million

In Her Purse: Louise Story & Ebony Reed

Home Economics No. 6: Childfree-by-Choice Newlyweds Living in Chicago on $160,000 a Year

Some frank thoughts on money, jealousy, and loneliness

Division of Labor No. 5: A self-employed executive coach and a technical account manager raising 3 teens in Seattle

In Her Purse: Maria DeVoto

Home Economics No. 5: Living in the New Jersey Suburbs on a $800K Joint Income

In Defense of Motherhood

Division of Labor No. 4: A writer and a lawyer raising 3 kids in Washington, D.C.

In Her Purse: Ruchi Pinniger

The high cost of going green

I believe women deserve to get paid for their work

Home Economics No. 4: Divorced, 63, and living in Colorado with $50,000 in retirement savings

Division of Labor No. 3: A writer and prop-house manager raising a toddler in L.A.

In Her Purse: Amy Shoenthal

Home Economics No. 3: Single and Living in Southwest Ohio on $62,000 a year

Let's be real: Salary transparency is complicated

In Her Purse: Financial Therapist Aja Evans

Division of Labor No. 2: Two parents working in tech with two kids under 3

Home Economics No. 2: Living in the San Francisco Bay Area on $13,200 a Month

Struggling to make ends meet on $180k because you're spending $80k on childcare

In Her Purse: Heather Boneparth

How mom and dad make it work (and sometimes don't)

Home Economics No. 1: Living in Brooklyn on $466k joint income

Let's talk about money in the Substack chat

New year, same old me

Careening into 2024