#creating a budget

[wisterianwoman]

managing money: for when you're broke - FREE budget template

Even if you find yourself in a challenging financial position, it is still possible to set and work towards achievable goals. By taking the right steps and making smart choices, you can start improving your finances and gradually build a better future.

Living paycheck-to-paycheck can be an incredibly exhausting and stressful experience. Have you found yourself caught in a never-ending cycle of financial instability, where each month feels like a balancing act on a tightrope? does this sound like you? From the moment you receive your paycheck, a wave of relief washes over you. But it’s short-lived as you quickly realize that your money is…

[lalocreativity]

You or someone you know needs this right now!

"There are plenty of resources that talk about making more income but what about the space in between where you've just lost income, or a job and bills and rent are still due?"-

Losing Your Income is the Worst and What to do Next is a blog page of simple step suggestion format on the blog with ways to help you immediately with what do next and why it works!

Take simple actions that can help you get back on track with your income, creativity and life.

Taken from my own recent personal experience after losing a job and other income during 2021 and 2022, being a single mother, a part-time and freelance contract worker, I know what's it's like to see those bills mount up after a job loss, sleepness nights and anxiety.

When the plans you had are suddenly gone and you have to find another way. A way that doesn't send you into an endless spiral of frantic job searching and more burnout.

I believe the suggestions I share, will help save you time, relieve some stress, and get you back to your stability so you can continue on towards living your life and reaching your goals again.

[davidl2001]

How to Start Financially Planning for Your Future While You're Young

Financially Planning Financial planning may seem like something that is only necessary when you’re older and have more assets to worry about. However, the truth is that starting to plan for your financial future while you’re young can set you up for success later in life. By taking small steps now, you can create a solid foundation for your future financial well-being. In this blog post, we will…

[creditcardsin]

Understanding your statement balance and practicing credit card budgeting can help manage your finances. Paying off your statement balance in full each month and setting a spending limit can help you avoid accruing interest charges and overspending. Monitoring your credit score, paying bills on time, and avoiding carrying a balance are also essential for financial stability. Read more: https://creditcardinfobysachin.blogspot.com/2023/05/statement-balance-and-credit-card.html

[galedekarios]

"It creates a distinct visual motif not found in other romances that captures the connection between the two characters while feeling distinctly not of this world."

"We wanted this to feel like Gale and their partner were really merging into one, new, perfectly harmonious being."

[source]

[pinkeoni]

Your show about 80’s movies isn’t shot on film

[overthinkinglotr]

oh wow, great to find someone else enjoying Fairmeadow!! amazing art, and I've loved the worldbuilding/designs for Goma and the orcs.

Yay another Fairmeadow fan! A friend recently recommended it to me and I now recommend it to anyone else looking for good thoughtful fantasy webcomics that play with the genre's conventions. :3 Here's the pitch for the other people reading this post who haven't read Fairmeadow yet: "An orcish warrior joins an isolated pacifist commune-- can she learn to live alongside those she swore to fight?"

Goma, a wayward Orcish soldier, finds herself in Fairmeadow, a commune of pacifists deep in the Cascadian wilderness. Isolation has allowed the commune to thrive in the shadow of a century-long war, but Goma’s arrival brings troubling reminders of the world outside to those who have settled there in search of respite.  Fairmeadow’s enigmatic leader, Sanctuary, finds his utopian vision challenged as he struggles to keep the peace. Their self-sufficiency exists on thin margins - margins that threaten to break if Goma cannot learn to live alongside those who she has sworn to fight.  Fairmeadow is a post-epic fantasy drama inspired by the counter-cultural movements of the late 60’s, the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and tabletop RPG’s. It’s about the collision of idealism against pragmatism, reckoning with the consequences of dropping out, and trying to make its readers want to go on a hike.

It also has gorgeous art, especially the landscapes/backgrounds! I've noticed a lot of webcomic artists are either good at drawing expressive characters or expressive backgrounds, but this artist is great at both. The worldbuilding is conveyed pretty subtly/naturally through dialogue, and the good writing in combination with the beautiful detailed background illustrations really helps sell the story's fantasy world as a 'real' place. It's also pretty queer, though it's far more focused on 'the emotional and societal consequences of war' than on romance. tl;dr: I know half of all fantasy webcomics try to do a 'what if the monsters/orcs were Sympathetic" storyline, but this is genuinely one of the best-written examples of that!

[soupnoodle]

my friend who went to see the new master and margarita movie, not familiar with the book: what the fuck is going on

me, watching the new master and margarita movie, familiar with the book: what the fuck is going on

[snail-of-fire]

Wanted to re-draw one of my fav scenes while I was doing Mal's route (it isn't really a route as far as I can tell but idc). Either way, I LOVE MAL HELP ME

Mal obviously belongs to @lacunafiction and the bottom weirdo over there is Velia "Vee" Zane. Goes by she/they and it's so funny to me because Vee is like... the opposite of the red flag Mal is. Vee likes to hide, doesn't like doing ANYTHING, and is most likely the first one to die in a horror movie (because they lack the will😔).

Either way, Vee is crushing on Mal hard, but she doesn't even know that LOL (and how doesn't she notice???? like vee darling, you're super careful and cautious of everyone, but with Mal you're like super open-faced...)

Anyways, this is my 45th time telling y'all to play The Fernweh Saga, it's my absolute fav for a reason.

[macbethz]

This show does NOT have the emotional maturity to handle a sexual abuse storyline holy shit

[imflyingfish]

Me watching the industrial and commercial demand go up while there is low residential demand knowing that this will cause a labour shortage.

[hellhoundstooth]

yesterday my mom and I were shopping for clothes and I'm constantly trying to find things for her that will make her look and feel good. she kept being drawn to this champagne-gold colored tutu-esque tulle skirt with like rainbow glitter on it? Anyway, I made her try it on and kept using bullshit insta language abt her inner child or whatever just bc it's.. easy shorthand. like sometimes you just have to try on other personalities.

and she kept making a ton of excuses and apologies for why she liked it so much bc it was glitzy and frilly and unlike what she's usually drawn to and ENTIRELY unlike anything she owns. even if we didn't get it I wanted her to know what it felt like to at least put it on!!!

and while we were in the dressing room she was like

"why aren't you picking out anything that speaks to YOUR inner child"

and in the best self-roast i think I've ever accomplished, i said "because we aren't in a hot topic in 2005."

[shinobicyrus]

“Nevertheless, the interpassive simulation of participation in postmodern media, the network of narcissism of MySpace and Facebook has, in the main, generated content that is repetitive, parasitic, and conformist. In a seeming irony, the media class’s refusal to be paternalistic has not produced a bottom-up culture of breathtaking diversity, but one that is increasingly infantilized...The reason that focus groups and capitalist feedback systems fail, even when they generate commodities that are immensely popular, is that people do not know what they want. This is not only because people’s desire is already present but concealed from them (although this is often the case). Rather, the most powerful forms of desire are precisely cravings for the strange, the unexpected, the weird. These can only be supplied by artists and media professionals who are prepared to give people something different from that which already satisfied them; by those, that is to say, prepared to take a certain kind of risk...to wager on the strange and our appetite for it.”

–Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

[peterlorres21stcentury]

After the sort of day I had, which included about seven hours of meetings just to learn the process of reviewing a grants budget in microscopic detail, I have never felt more sympathetic to young Peter Lorre working his crushing bank job by day just to live for the Vienna stage at night. Such is a long held artistic tradition (that must be destroyed).

[morphogenetic]

just wanted to let you know that after a long time of wanting to play raging loop, seeing you post about it recently finally made me say ' i should just buy it'. so i got it in the steam sale :-)

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE LADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!