9 a.m. — I am a beekeeper and get a very exciting text — my friend has a swarm of bees and is ready to sell them to me! All my bees died last winter (huge bummer) so I’ve been waiting for months for his bees to swarm to rebuild my apiary. I hit the ATM and get my hives ready for him to drop off the bees.
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Growing up, what kind of conversations did you have about money? Did your parent/guardian educate you about finances? At 18 I moved out into the college dorms that were a year-to-year lease and took over all my own expenses. I had family friends that I could have turned to in emergencies but was stubborn about not wanting to have to ask for help.9 a.m. — I am a beekeeper and get a very exciting text — my friend has a swarm of bees and is ready to sell them to me! All my bees died last winter so I’ve been waiting for months for his bees to swarm to rebuild my apiary.
12:30 p.m. — During my lunchtime scan of our account I notice that the electricity bill has also gone through. First, thank goodness for autodrafts and being in a place where we can set those up without much worry about overdrafts. That’s not always been the case and I had a lot of instances in college and early in my career where I had to log into a zillion different platforms to manually pay the bills.
6 p.m. — Dinner tonight is leftovers out of the fridge since we’ll be at the beach for the next couple of days. This is a quick trip so nothing will really go bad before we come back but I don’t feel like getting groceries for one night of cooking.8 a.m. — We eat a quick breakfast at home: grits and coffee for me, cheese toast for the little man. His overnight bag is packed for the nanny’s house as he’ll stay with her for the two nights we’re at the beach for this company retreat.
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