What You Read Most in 2025 (And What Do You Want in 2026?)
A look back at the articles that helped you the most in 2025, plus your chance to tell us what you want to read next.
Congratulations, we made it through another year! It was an interesting time of navigating life in 2025 … everything from rent increases, eating out inflation, grocery shrinkflation, and the eternal question of whether you can actually afford your next holiday. Through it all, you kept showing up to learn, plan, and take small steps forward with your money.
Before we continue our march through 2026, we wanted to look back at the articles that resonated most with you this year. These five pieces got the most reads and shares from you. If you missed any of them, now’s your chance to catch up.
The 7-Day No-Spend Challenge: How to Build Financial Awareness
This one struck a nerve. Turns out a lot of us wanted permission to just … stop spending for a week. Not forever, not even for a month, just long enough to see what habits were running on autopilot. Readers loved the day-by-day structure and the focus on awareness over full-on deprivation.
Build Your Rainy Day Fund: Protect Your Financial Growth
Emergency funds aren’t glamorous, but this article helped reframe it as more of protection for your investments rather than just another savings goal. The garden metaphor (your emergency fund as the fence protecting your investment garden) really clicked for some people.
Should You Invest or Pay Off Debt First? Your September Decision Guide
This question was finally answered with a framework you can put to use instead of a generic “it depends.” Readers appreciated the interest-rate-based decision tree and the acknowledgment that the “right” answer changes based on your actual situation.
How to Start Investing €10 Weekly: Your October Action Plan
Proof that you don’t need to wait for a big lump sum to start investing. This step-by-step guide showed how €10 a week adds up faster than you’d expect, and the “invisible money method” helped people find that €10 without feeling like they were sacrificing anything.
Financial Confidence When You’ve Overspent in December
Published right when everyone needed it most. This article tackled the shame spiral that hits after holiday overspending and offered practical mental resets instead of just “make a budget.” Sometimes you just need someone to tell you that one expensive month doesn’t erase your progress.
Now It’s Your Turn: What Do You Want in 2026?
We write these articles for you, so we want to know what’s actually on your mind. What money questions keep you up at night? What topics would actually help?
Take 60 seconds to let us know:
Your answers will directly shape what we write this year.
Quick Recap
2025 was about building foundations: awareness, emergency funds, and the confidence to start investing even when it felt scary. In 2026, we want to go deeper on the topics that matter most to you.
Thanks for reading, and for trusting us to be part of your money journey.
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