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Changing the Conversation About Privilege

March 15, 2017 by Penny 41 Comments

Did you hear the one about how you, too, can pay off $220,000 in debt in three years? Ba dum tss. Let me fast track this to the catch. It involves a whole bunch of hard work piled on top of the generous gift of a home combined with the gift of somewhere else to … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Wonder Tagged: bootstrap, bootstrapping, Business Insider, debt, debt stories, help, perspective, privilege

Five Financial Truths I Don’t Believe

March 1, 2017 by Penny 29 Comments

The interwebs are filled with financial advice, cautionary tales, and success stories beyond my wildest imaginings. Amidst all that collective wisdom, though, are some sayings that seem significant but might actually be problematic oversimplifications. Here are five tweetable money truths that simply don’t ring true for me.

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Posted in: Wonder Tagged: advice, lies, money, oversimplifications, privilege, sayings, wisdom, wrong

What’s in a Name?

January 30, 2017 by Penny 11 Comments

When I got married, I made the decision to keep my last name. I don’t know that I was railing against tradition so much as I was electing to keep something that had always been mine. Over the past four years, I’ve given many explanations as to why I kept my name. The red tape, the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Wonder Tagged: ancestors, family, heritage, Italian, Italian American, Italy, jobs, last name, name, opportunity, privilege, tradition

Thoreau, The Minimalists, and Opting Out

August 22, 2016 by Penny 48 Comments

Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist? I appreciate. Henry David Thoreau the abolitionist? I applaud. Henry David Thoreau the father of simple living and the minimalist movement? I have a bone to pick with you.

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: decluttering, less, minimalism, optional, privilege, The Minimalists, Thoreau, Walden

“You Don’t Know What It’s Like to be Poor”

March 16, 2016 by Penny 14 Comments

Last week, it was the Democratic sound bite heard round the Internet – or at least, my private Facebook feed: “When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor.” Bernie Sanders’ comment on institutional racism and systemic poverty eviscerated the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: class, education, influence, lessons, Martin Luther King, money, privilege, teacher

The Privilege of Pretending

February 24, 2016 by Penny 35 Comments

My heart started to hammer as I unloaded my grocery cart items onto the conveyer belt and I started to mentally run the numbers. We might not make it under our $200 grocery budget for the month. How could this be? What was different? Did I buy too much fresh produce? Should I put something … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: budget, food, food insecure, groceries, poverty, privilege, SNAP, Tim Ferriss

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