In her article, “Why I Am Bringing Work Home,” Patrice shares why she and her co-spender are taking the Manage Your Money Challenge this January. Why are you taking the challenge? Feel free to share what’s motivating you in the comments below.
As a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, I feel strongly about finding a balance between work-life and home-life, but since my work is about families, sometimes it all overlaps! When my daughters were growing up and I was working with community nutrition education, they would often ask about a container of food in the refrigerator: “Is this for home, or is this for work?”. In January 2015, I’m bringing work home as I asked my co-spender to join me in the OSU Extension Manage Your Money Email challenge. I reassured my co-spender that I was not planning to share any of our personal financial information as it won’t be asked of any participants.
Read the rest of this article at OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences’ “Live Smart Ohio” blog.