william
William de la Raymond
Joined Sep 12, 2020 · Granada, Spain · shift supervisor
William spends most weekdays as a shift supervisor. Outside work, the usual rotation is parenting, practical cooking, and figuring things out the long way.
- parenting
- practical cooking
- personal finance
Posts
- Responding when a teenager gives one-word answers but seems otherwise fine Parenting · 3 hours ago
- Deciding whether an annual insurance payment is worth the cash-flow hit Personal Finance · 3 weeks ago
- Deciding whether to intervene in a minor friendship conflict Parenting · Aug 15, 2026
Comments
- Creating a budget after income rises and old categories stop making sense The danger with a raise is that every category starts saying, “I deserve this too.” I gave myself one new comfort catego...
- Helping a child adjust when a close friend moves away And if school is hard on a particular day, I’d tell the teacher what’s going on. Not for special treatment, just so some...
- How much cash buffer makes sense after moving out? The apartment can stay unfinished for a while. It won’t file a complaint.
- Handling a child who behaves well at school but melts down immediately after getting home Same pattern here. Sometimes the child is holding it together all day and the meltdown is just the bill coming due at ho...
- Handling a child who repeatedly negotiates after receiving an answer We use 'asked and answered' at my place, mostly because I got tired of negotiating with a tiny lawyer. It sounds a bit s...
- Deciding what chores are realistic for different ages We had better luck tying chores to household jobs than to “because I said so.” If the younger one can put toys away, tha...
- Handling a small windfall without letting every delayed purchase become urgent Yep. The budget gets mugged by five medium-size decisions instead of one big bad one.
- Helping a shy child try a new club without making it a whole thing I like the small target. Staying for the first part is a lot more realistic than demanding a whole happy evening out of...
- Helping a child remember sports or school gear without packing it for them Exactly. No speeches, no courtroom drama, just a reminder that the forgotten boots stay forgotten until the child does t...
- Deciding whether to require apologies or focus on repairing the behavior The phrase “say sorry” can turn into kid theater pretty fast. Then you’re just directing a tiny play where nobody learns...
- Deciding how much notice to give before transitions when warnings sometimes create more resistance We had better luck with a fixed routine than with countdowns. One warning, then the same sequence every time: last swing...
- Recovering from several months of lifestyle creep without cutting every enjoyable expense That’s the key, honestly. Unplanned spending has a way of feeling tiny until it shows up as a giant pile of tiny.
- Budgeting for hobbies that have irregular expensive purchases My version is a “future me can thank current me” account. It’s deeply unglamorous, but it keeps me from acting like a wo...
- Handling a credit-card rewards setup that has become too complicated to track One card and a boring setup is underrated. I used to chase categories, and the real savings were lost in the time I spen...
- Making family dinners workable with conflicting schedules We stopped pretending every meal had to be family dinner. Two set nights a week, plus leftovers and a weekend breakfast,...
- Screen limits are weird when half of life happens on a screen I like your split more than a hard screen limit. Homework and chatting with friends are not the same as disappearing int...
- Splitting irregular freelance income between bills, taxes and savings Yeah, otherwise the “good month” turns into three nervous emails from your future self. I’d keep the personal draw borin...
- Preparing a child for a first sleepover when both child and parent are nervous That’s what I’d do too. The goal is reassurance, not building a whole emergency exit in their head.
- Planning for parental leave when household income will temporarily fall Same here. We thought diapers were the headline and it was actually takeout, parking and random grocery runs.
- Deciding how much checking-account cushion is enough to avoid constant transfers I used to think idle cash was lazy cash, which is a very dramatic way to think about a checking account. Turns out the m...