Author: Meredith Rines, MBA, CFP®

Meredith Rines, MBA, CFP®, a budget and financial strategist helping families pay off debt and live the life they've always wanted.

Dreaming of a new Planner

With the wedding gone and over its time to rethink my planner situation. I have a slight addiction to planners, organizers and todo lists. I’ve mentioned my love of todo lists before, a few times.  Read here about how I keep to=do lists and take notes to fake it. For the wedding I was carrying […]

Categories: Organization

Tags: planner

Slow Cooked Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Note: Some links in this post contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission if you make a purchase. Thanks for supporting my blog! I love fall more than any other time of the year.  Something about the crispness in the air, the dark pretty colors in the trees and all of the […]

Categories: Recipe

Tags: Soup

Time Management Tools Series

Welcome to my series on developing time management tools. I’ve been tossing around this idea for the past few weeks to talk about time management tools.  Not just talk about it, but also share what I’ve learned from trial and error, from others, and from all the books I’ve read.  I’ve mentioned here how I […]

Our Wedding Photos :: The Details

I’ve already showed off some of our wonderful wedding photos in this post here.  But today I wanted to talk about and show off some of wedding day details.  I worked hard at planning our wedding, I had help from an awesome wedding coordinator, from our friends, and from our family.  I found small touches […]

Categories: Wedding

Tags: wedding photos

Happy Thanksgiving

J and I will be traveling to see my family.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  My Dad’s side of the family tries super hard for all of us to get together.  As we get older and are getting married it’s becoming more difficult for all of us to get together.  Even for J […]

Thankful for in 2013

Here we go the post of what I am thankful for in 2013. I’ll try to keep it short and sweet, but you will get the point. J & I got hitched and it’s pretty amazing to think that I now am half of a whole.  You can read about our perfect wedding day here. // […]

Categories: Thanksgiving

Tags: thankful

Personal Finance: Learn From Others

When growing up you probably looked up to your parents, teachers, older siblings, or other mentors that were in your life.  You may have even tried to imitate them, just as I did my older sister (except for that blue lipstick phase she went through – she was on her own).  It’s no surprise that […]

Categories: Personal Finance

Our Wedding Photos

Our Wedding Photos are absolutely wonderful. OH MY GOSH! Seriously, I could have dreamt of anything better. Our photographer, David and his wife, Sarah are a phenomenal team. I thought our engagement photos were freaking awesome (you can check out our engagement photos here.) and then I saw our wedding photos.  David out did himself.  We look great. […]

Categories: Wedding

Tags: wedding photos

I’m Secretly Weird

When I was younger, like high school age, I would love when I would get sick and had to stay home from school. Not because I love being sick, no.  I am not that messed up. I really enjoyed having nothing to do and a reason to sleep all day. My parents were always concerned […]

Categories: Life At Home

Tags: being sick

Advice To My 21 Year Old Self

Older and wiser seem to be true with each year that passes.  I can look back on my years in high school, college, in the graduate degree program with fondness.  Each section of my life is better than the last, and for that I am happy. I’ve written a post about going back to college […]

Categories: Tips

Tags: Advice