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I’m Sarah Von Bargen.
Want to look at your calendar and your bank statement and think “Yup, I made awesome choices”? I’ll show you how to spend your time, money, and energy on purpose.
9 Painless Ways To Trick Yourself Into Spending Less
Does spending less feel like a long slog of coupon clipping, ramen noodles, and watching everybody have more fun than you on Instagram?
Friend, it doesn’t have to. Hand to God, I swear by these tricks to spending less that feel nigh-on painless. Like, you might not even notice that you’re spending less till you get your surprisingly small credit card bill.
A giant asterisk: these tricks will absolutely help you buy fewer things you don’t need. HOWEVER. They won’t help you get to the root of why you’re buying things you don’t need in the first place. That’s a much bigger endeavor.
That said, this is a great place to start and when you’re ready to really, actually change your relationship with money, this will help.
9 Painless Ways To Trick Yourself Into Spending Less
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37 Blogging Tips + Business Tricks I’ve Learned In 37 Years
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On Monday, I celebrated my 37th birthday. I commemorated my time here on earth by doing all my favorite things: Sleeping in Reading in the backyard Having hashbrowns at my favorite diner Getting a pedicure while reading Lady Magazines 'Shopping' on Grand Avenue (aka 'smelling candles, picking things up and putting them down, considering buying something at Anthropologie and then deciding that I...
True Story: I have 9 children
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True Story: I’m biking across America
I don't know about you guys, but I'm preeeeetty impressed with myself any time I ride a bike anywhere. In the rare event I even ride my bike to the grocery store, I become convinced I'm essentially a tri-athlete (my events being cycling, buying produce, and small talk with the cashier). Imagine biking across the country! Like, THOUSANDS OF MILES. Today, Sarah is telling us how she's doing just...
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Raise your hand if you file SEO under the heading of "Know I should be doing it, am completely overwhelmed and unsure where to start." Dude, YES. Up until last year, I never, ever optimized my posts because I thought since I didn't like it, I could ignore it. But then I hired Kim Herrington (the author of this super helpful guest post) and she helped me grow my traffic, income, and subscribers...