Relationship
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 [...]
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 [...]
Budgeting: Early Returns
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008We’re approaching the end of our first month of our attempt to track our expenses.
The good News:
1) We’ve successfully tracked all expenses so far this month. We’ve never actually accomplished that before. The web entry form has been working really well.
2) We’re significantly under budget. One of our biggest budgeted expenses is “travel”, and tomorrow [...]
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 [...]
Milestones
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I’m in Belgium this week, at a week-long Dutch language course. (Half of Belgium speaks Flemmish, which is just a dialect of the Dutch they speak in the Netherlands).
June 1st (yesterday), was Spender’s and my five year anniversary. We now know each other better than we’ve ever known anyone else, though there are still occasionally [...]
Welcome to my (pf) life
Monday, May 19th, 2008When I decided it would be fun to start a personal finance blog, I mentioned it to Spender, and he thought it would be a great idea. I was excited about doing something together, and thought it would be a little different than the blogs that are out that. Spender has expressed his desire to [...]
The beginnings of all things are small
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008I’m a Saver. He’s a Spender. This is the story of how we make that work and achieve our financial (and other) goals.
I want to start this blog mainly as a way to give us some accountability in both our finances and the way we deal with them together. It’s also a way to get [...]