Personal Finance Tips but Who the heck am I? 

Hi!

My best friends call me the Chaos Coordinator, so I'll just go by CC to make things easy.

I'm a Millennial, which means I've lived through a financial crisis, a pandemic, inflation that turned a grocery run into a financial decision, and at least two other historically unprecedented disasters that apparently only happen once in a lifetime — and yet, here we are, collecting them like trading cards. I cope the way any reasonable person does: by reading romantasy books until reality gets less loud.

I am not a financial advisor. I cannot stress this enough. What I am is someone with crippling anxiety, an unhealthy attachment to spreadsheets, and an apparently rare gift for explaining money stuff without making people's eyes glaze over or their souls leave their bodies. I've spent years being the unofficial "wait, explain that to me" person for friends, family, and coworkers — and eventually I figured I should just write it down instead of repeating myself for the fourteenth time.

This blog exists because I am so deeply tired of financial content that tells you to just invest in crypto, monetize your passion, or hustle harder like sleep is optional and fun is for the weak. Some of us have anxiety. Some of us just want to feel slightly less unhinged about our checking account without overhauling our entire lifestyle or becoming a different person. Some of us have dreams of becoming a bog witch and living where no one can find us, and we live in a library. No risk glorifying. No bro energy. No pyramid schemes dressed up in motivational quotes.

Just practical tips from a perimenopausal woman who catastrophizes every financial decision thoroughly enough to have actually thought it through.

You're welcome.

--C.C.