Chelsea Fagan

Chelsea Fagan founded the blog The Financial Diet. She is on Twitter.

  • Are You Worth Dating?

    Are You Worth Dating?

    To say "I won't date someone unless they are smart, kind, career-oriented, capable of compromise, and healthy" is far easier than to say "I won't date someone until I am all of these things and more."

  • 7 Things Everyone Thinks But No One Says

    7 Things Everyone Thinks But No One Says

    Sometimes you just want to punch the baby.

  • 7 Things About Love That Make No Sense

    7 Things About Love That Make No Sense

    Basically, if you're the couple that just stands on the sidewalk for extended periods of time and boops noses together in between makeout sessions and sweet nothings, you deserve to get breadcrumbs thrown at you.

  • How To Kiss A Girl

    How To Kiss A Girl

    Kiss her lightly. Understand just how many boys have kissed her too hard, too fast, too sloppily.

  • What Your Favorite Disney Princess Says About You

    What Your Favorite Disney Princess Says About You

    You are the girl that every girl asks "OMG WHAT PRODUCT DO YOU USE" when you post selfies on your blog. You have got the perfect combination of length, well-conditioned softness, and complete absence of ugly breakage or split ends.

  • 29 Dates To Go On With Your Best Friend

    29 Dates To Go On With Your Best Friend

    Treat yourselves to a nice dinner out at a fancy place when one of you gets a Groupon for it. Order dishes made for two and laugh when the waiter and other diners look at you bizzarely.

  • What Your Facebook Profile Says About You

    What Your Facebook Profile Says About You

    Everyone hates you and your stupid relationship. Everyone secretly makes fun of your constant back-and-forth of "love u baby" on your respective timelines. Everyone is going to quietly rejoice when the two of you finally break up -- and you will.

  • 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Woman In Her 20s

    10 Things You Should Never Say To A Woman In Her 20s

    I think the idea here is that, even if you're having sex (of which you should not be having too much, because God forbid you break your vagina and lose the warranty or something) you shouldn't be sharing.

  • 8 Reasons You Are Single

    8 Reasons You Are Single

    Whether you're one of the Nice Guys who take pictures of themselves wearing a fedora and complaining about how shallow women are with no irony, or you're a walking Taylor Swift song who thinks every girl who manages to get a boyfriend when you don't is an evil slut, you are just not making it…

  • What It Feels Like To Be Cheated On

    What It Feels Like To Be Cheated On

    The searching is perhaps the worst part, the breathless moments before the floor falls out from underneath you.

  • 8 Things That Are No Longer Cool In Your 20s

    8 Things That Are No Longer Cool In Your 20s

    If you have ever accidentally entered a club on 18 and over night, you know what it means to feel simultaneously incredibly out-of-place and bitter at the universe for having put you in this position.

  • 7 Signs You’re Growing Up Too Fast

    7 Signs You’re Growing Up Too Fast

    I know people in my actual life who, at the ripe old age of 24, say to me in all seriousness that they can "no longer" fulfill their dream of coming to Europe, or that they are "too old" to take the night classes towards the Master's they want.

  • The 10 Essentials For Any Good Relationship

    The 10 Essentials For Any Good Relationship

    If someone tells you they don't want marriage and kids, and that they aren't going to change their mind, please do everyone a favor and listen to them.

  • How To Hack Sephora

    How To Hack Sephora

    The sale products are often in fairly odd places, such as the caps at the ends of rows where no one usually looks, so go hunting for them (or ask for help to find them #noshame).

  • 29 Things To Avoid In A Boyfriend

    29 Things To Avoid In A Boyfriend

    He refers to things other than homosexual couples as being "gay."

  • 26 Questions For The Person Who Dumped You

    26 Questions For The Person Who Dumped You

    Did you ever call me "crazy" after we broke up, or even while we were dating?

  • Dear Pretty Girls On Facebook

    Dear Pretty Girls On Facebook

    Pretty Facebook Girls, you are the unicorns of the social media world. Your life is a blur of candid photos that somehow come out looking like something that would win a week's competition on America's Next Top Model, and other girls subtly remarking on how cripplingly jealous they are of you in comments that are…

  • The Difference Between Alone And Lonely

    The Difference Between Alone And Lonely

    Lonely is allowing this freedom from judgment to take root in your life, to become a reason to let things go.