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Dan Cayer

Content Marketing Writer at YNAB

Dan Cayer is the writer and voice behind YNAB’s newsletters, Loose Change, Round Up, and You Need an Update. He’s also a regular contributor on the blog, where he’s written about how financial trauma from generations ago can still affect partners. For years, Dan toggled between trying to ignore money and freaking out about it. Through YNAB, he’s come to see that how we spend our money is not simply an accounting question. All the effort and time we put into earning or saving, how do we want to spend it? 

He’s on a mission to help people feel less ashamed about money; life’s too short. Off-screen, Dan can be found tinkering with his slow cooker, bicycling in the Hudson Valley, and wrestling with his two daughters.

Featured Articles

How Family Histories Strained Our Finances

The relationship your parents (and their parents before them) had with money affects yours. Overcome your family's history with finances.

Why Is Personal Financial Advice So Mean?

Why is it acceptable to get your money advice delivered with an insult or an eye roll? My car mechanic and my doctor don’t talk to me that way. My lawn guy isn’t performatively banging his head into a microphone when I tell him my grass is underwatered.

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Dan

How to Understand “Irrational” Spending Decisions

Ever wonder why we make those baffling, wallet-opening decisions? Dive into a captivating story that makes sense of surprise purchases.

Deciding What’s Financially Fair With Your Partner

"Fair" is in the eye of the beholder. Learn how to transform messy money talks into collaborative conversations with YNAB.

Why Is Personal Financial Advice So Mean?

Why is it acceptable to get your money advice delivered with an insult or an eye roll? My car mechanic and my doctor don’t talk to me that way. My lawn guy isn’t performatively banging his head into a microphone when I tell him my grass is underwatered.

A Decade Into YNAB: Here’s Why My Wife and I Are Still Thankful

How Family Histories Strained Our Finances

The relationship your parents (and their parents before them) had with money affects yours. Overcome your family's history with finances.