A Listicle of Apps that Help me Adult
When you're 22 and living outside of your parents home, your peers and people tend to think you have it all together, when in reality you're kind of a mess that just knows how to contour and realizes that getting your oil changed is more important, albeit sucky, than going to that new club in Newport over the weekend.
And not only do I live out of my parents home, I live 2,000 miles away from my mom's place. See, she's in Northern Illinois and I'm in Southern California. So not only am I "on my own", I'm really out here on my own.
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Before you go accusing me of being a spoiled brat who is supported financially by her parents....I am not that person either. Now, I really don't see anything wrong with being supported financially by your parents. If they're able to do so, that's great and you're lucky. (I know my parents would if they had the means.) I digress, though...there's a reason I work full time and have my own freelance consulting. Let's just put it this way, I really do keep the roof over my head, make sure my phone is always paid for, and know that there's always something in the fridge.
But really, behind the scenes, I still call my mom at least 4 times a day and I still make immature choices. I acknowledge I don't know everything...hell I probably only know .0003% of things.
This is turning into a paragraph based article, let's get to the list, shall we?
- Prosper Daily - Financial - App Store - Free - $6.99 ID Protection Monthly
- Outside of my regular mobile banking app, this app is great for all-in-one finance tracking. It's connected to my bank accounts and cards. It's also connected to my social security number so I can see when new accounts are opened in my name or there's an inquiry on my credit. I'm able to see what's being deposited and withdrawn and trends in spending.
What I love the most about this is what also kinda digs into my anxiety. Every morning I have to swipe and "approve" or "flag" transactions to follow up on. It keeps me accountable for my actions. Almost a double acknowledgement. Once when I actually click or press "approve" and then the next morning.
I pay for the monthly ID protection but might disable that because I just remembered I have ID protection through Legal Shield.
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| Image Via: Prosper Daily |
- Unroll.Me - Email - App Store/Desktop - Free
- This app is a godsend, especially around the holiday season when every single website that you clicked "subscribe to" at some point or another is inundating your inbox with "last minute holiday ideas and sales". They're almost as annoying and frustrating as political ads during elections seasons. But what Unroll.Me does is scan through your inbox and find subscriptions or repeated impersonal/bot sent messages and then presents them to you in an almost "tinder-esque" format. You can swipe to unsubscribe, keep in your inbox, OR have it sent to you in a daily "roll up". instead of having 30 emails to look at (or press "delete/mark as read"), you have one email to scroll through and see if something catches your eye.
