Knowing your credit score and not knowing your net worth is the financial equivalent of knowing your blood pressure but not knowing what you ate for six months.
Knowing your credit score and not knowing your net worth is the financial equivalent of knowing your blood pressure but not knowing what you ate for six months.
huh, imagine that.
Your tax refund is not a bonus. It is an interest-free loan you gave the IRS and waited twelve months to get back.
yep, pretty much.
that is not a plan.
Minimum payments on student loans feel like progress. The amortization schedule says otherwise.
first of the month feels fake.
Credit utilization below 30% improves your FICO score. It does not reduce what you owe. Those are two completely different outcomes being conflated constantly.
cash flow positive. net worth negative. that gap has a name.
Your W-2 shows what you earned. Your net worth shows what you kept. Most people have never compared those two numbers in the same room.