My New Thing: Peace of Mind Budgeting

I have not been doing a lot of blogging or  genealogy research in recent months, because I’ve started a new adventure. In March, I completed a training program to become a YNAB Certified Budgeting Coach. YNAB (aka You Need A Budget) is a budgeting method and app that helps people get control of their spending (and saving). I started using it in 2018 and it changed my life. Ever since, I’ve been promoting it to everyone I know and I jumped at the chance to take training so that I could add budget coaching to the service offerings of my organizing business, Peace of Mind Organizing®.

The relationship of budget coaching to genealogy is only tangential (it’s a great idea to budget for your genealogy expenses), but I mention it here because I wanted my readers to know what was going on with me.

I just debuted my website Peace of Mind Budgeting last. Please check it out if you’re interesting in learning my budgeting coaching services and reading my budgeting blog. Or you can go straight to the YNAB website to learn about it and sign up for a free trial. (That’s a referral link…if you click it and ending up subscribing to YNAB–it’s $99 a year when paid annually–we each get an extra month added to our subscriptions.)

Why do I love YNAB so much? It has allowed me to:

• Get out and stay out of credit card debt
• Building healthy savings
• Welcome my husband’s recent retirement without freaking out about money
• Live without financial stress, because I am in control of my finances
• Handle my elderly aunt’s and, before he passed away, my father’s finances with ease

Just in case you’re interested in my budget coaching services, I wanted to let you know that I’m offering a discount while I get my feet wet. The first six budgeting clients who sign up for one of my packages will receive a substantial discount. I created a special coupon code for OYFH readers: OYFH. Use that code when you book a package to take advantage of it. If you get the message “Sorry, this coupon code is not valid” you’ll know that all those spots have been sold.

I started Organize Your Family History ten years ago this month (can you believe it?). And it’s not going anywhere. But since I’ll be spending so much time with Peace of Mind Budgeting, my blogging schedule here will be reduced to once a week. And I’ll be re-running some good posts from the past, along with creating new content.

Thanks for letting me share my news!