Money Stories
Time is Money, an apology and course correction to save(er)
Monday, August 11th, 2008Clearly I’ve not been very good at participating in this project with Saver. I keep saying I will post, only to disappoint Saver by not doing so. I’m sorry I’ve not held up my end of the stick. I promised to post twice a week nearly a month ago and haven’t even posted once in [...]
Free Money!
Sunday, June 29th, 2008We’ve had quite a bit of “extra” money this month, by which I mean non-paycheck money. Most of it was things we were expecting, but they all happened to come through at the same time:
1) IRS rebate checks ($480.88 for me and $600 for Spender).
2) Proceeds from selling Spender’s half of a sailboat ($1038). This [...]
4 Phases of Money Merging
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I have a feeling most couples go through a couple phases of finance-mingling as their relationships develop. They are probably slightly different for each couple, and different couples will end up settling on whatever works for them. For Spender and I, there have been at least 3 distinct phases of “Money Merging”, and I’m hoping [...]
The Dull Assignment
Monday, June 23rd, 2008I never expected J.K. Rowling to cast a spell on me.
Saver and I have been butting heads about where we should be using the money that I made before we moved here. I’d really like to buy some new camera equipment. Treating money as “my” money and “your” money is still kind of second nature [...]
Someone’s Not Paying For Their Electricity
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008We moved out of our old apartment on March 12th. We did not turn off the electricity, because it was still cold at that point and a different apartment in our building had already had a problem with pipe freezing. Rather, we asked our landlord to call the electricity company and switch it back to [...]