Chelsea Fagan

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

  • 32 Ways To Make Me Fall In Love With You

    32 Ways To Make Me Fall In Love With You

    Lend me your sweater with the vague-and-absolutely-correct notion that I will be keeping it.

  • I Am Tired Of Competing With Other Women

    I Am Tired Of Competing With Other Women

    I know, if I am being honest with myself, that my harshest judgments and strictest standards are almost always reserved for other women, by reflex that I often cannot realize until I am mid-snark.

  • 34 Ways To Get Over Someone

    34 Ways To Get Over Someone

    Don't worry about 'winning' the breakup. You're not going to become the first ballerina president astronaut unicorn by the next time they look at your Facebook, so don't waste time trying.

  • 32 Things You Should Stop Caring About

    32 Things You Should Stop Caring About

    What the people you don't like post on their Facebook status (why are you even still friends with them?).

  • What It Means To Be A Best Friend

    What It Means To Be A Best Friend

    You were there through different relationships the way a people weathers different administrations, learning intimately what it is they are looking for and the mistakes they are making -- mistakes you know you have to let them make for themselves, just as they allow you yours.

  • 6 Ways To Tell Someone You Like Them

    6 Ways To Tell Someone You Like Them

    If your'e telling a story, have no concept of what you're actually saying, and realize far too late that you've been talking for seven straight minutes about that time you thought you got rabies from that raccoon you tried to domesticate at summer camp.

  • 19 Things You Should Do Before Going Back To School This Fall

    19 Things You Should Do Before Going Back To School This Fall

    See all of your friends from home one last time and remind yourself of how much you love them, how big a part of you they are, and how you should do better to keep in touch with them during the school year.

  • 6 Reasons Not To Get Back With Your Ex

    6 Reasons Not To Get Back With Your Ex

    We all know that tragic couple who is constantly having some Maury-esque fight, vowing never to speak to each other again, sleeping together a week later, and putting that relationship right back up on Facebook the next day.

  • 6 Things You Learn From A Summer Fling

    6 Things You Learn From A Summer Fling

    Somehow we can convince ourselves, at the beginning of June, that we'll be fine when the end of August rolls around and it's time to put things behind us. And yet, when that moment comes, we often start scrambling to make it work through the distance, the difficulty, and the new opportunities of the fall.

  • What You Deserve

    What You Deserve

    You deserve to look for love, if that's what you want, and be ready to accept it when it comes your way.

  • Kate Upton Is “Fat”: Why I’m Tired Of Competing With Other Women

    Kate Upton Is “Fat”: Why I’m Tired Of Competing With Other Women

    I know that, personally speaking, I am guilty on countless occasions of passing judgment about another woman's looks, of putting her into a category of some kind or making assumptions about her habits, lifestyle, or even the kind of person she is.

  • 10 Things You Learn From A Broken Heart

    10 Things You Learn From A Broken Heart

    Take extra time in hot showers, try on lots of great new clothes, discover your body again, watch whatever cheesy movie your heart desires. And don't apologize. Loving yourself, making yourself feel good and worthy, is essential to feeling complete, and being able to love anyone else.

  • 10 Moments That Make A Best Friendship

    10 Moments That Make A Best Friendship

    At some point, best friendships just become a giant amalgam of inside jokes, moments that have passed between the two of you and have flowered into their own language, a sort of code that allows you to experience life through a shared perspective.

  • 10 Things You Learn At A Retail Job

    10 Things You Learn At A Retail Job

    Many of them will take this opportunity to turn on you and hiss about how they're doing JUST FINE THANK YOU as they shuffle away from you like you were about to mace them.

  • Where Does Love Go When It Dies?

    Where Does Love Go When It Dies?

    "Everything is gonna change," you would whisper at night, staring up at the stars, passing a single bottle between you. "I know," they would reply. And you knew, just knew, that it would always be the two of you seeing the change together.

  • How To Get Over Yourself In 7 Easy Steps

    How To Get Over Yourself In 7 Easy Steps

    You can make all of the "right" decisions and sound awesome to your parents' judgy friends at dinner parties, or you can do what you really want and succeed or fail by your own terms.

  • 10 Things They Should Have Taught Us In Sex Ed

    10 Things They Should Have Taught Us In Sex Ed

    It's an undeniable trope in modern humor to have the woman be a perfectly normal, capable member of society -- right up until she's PMSing, at which point she becomes a many-headed hydra, only there to scream and complain, occasionally stopping to eat an entire pan of brownies and cry.

  • 6 Signs You Shouldn’t Be Hanging Out With Someone

    6 Signs You Shouldn’t Be Hanging Out With Someone

    But beyond just making the waiter's life miserable for the hour or so spent in the restaurant, this person clearly holds service jobs in general in extremely low esteem -- something that should essentially be punishable by death at this point.