Success

APRIL 8, 2024

For many, it’s a decade during which they are buying their first home, having children and upgrading their lifestyle. Allowing lifestyle creep “Spending is so visible because of social media and the internet,” Mahoney says. However, it’s not just lifestyle creep that’s causing this growing debt.

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Success

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We’d spend the majority of the year being diligent budgeters and ignoring our desires to take lavish vacations, spend heavily on meals or buy the newest gadget. Every January, we would find ourselves with a large credit card balance and would have to adjust our goals to make up for it. And then November would roll around.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There is an escape from the Money Panic, and it doesn’t involve selling off retirement investments or increasing your credit card limit. You can’t expect to live the lifestyle you had while under the protection of a payday every two weeks. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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