A new beginning
Posted on January 01, 2006 by Him and tagged about
This morning we woke up with bad hangovers - a reminder of our debauchery to celebrate the New Year. The total cost of the night was $170: $150 for two tickets to a nice Chicago bar, and $20 for cab rides to and from said bar. If you count the $20 breakfast at IHOP this morning to ease the hangover, then the total cost of the night was $190.
The kicker? We now have $60 in our checking account. To last us until Friday.
We are Him and Her -- a recently engaged couple living and working in Chicago. We are two of Suze Orman's Young, Fabulous, and Broke. Don't let our positive net worth fool you: much of that is tied up as life insurance and personal property. We have a mountain of debt that we're trying to overcome, and now we're trying to plan a wedding.
This is the second incarnation of this blog. We tried to start this a few months ago, but decided to put it on hiatus for a while. Join us this time around as we learn, as a couple, how to take control of our financial lives.
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Erykah | Mar 14, 2008
We are almost 5 month old newlyweds.I found this site after google search of allowances. But then read & found that it isn't just about allowances for me. I really want STRUCTURE so that we save and put money in the right places for future benefit instead of being careless.
Bills,expenses,tithe,savings,budgets,emergency,personal pleasures. Figuring out a way to get that all to work the right way since we dont have joint accounts and just decide to pay as we see the bill with our own funds. We have several set bills/expenses we each know are responsible to pay for with our own money . Not working for me or us in my opinion and it seems to be me as the only one concerned. I prefer the ONE POT deal to divvy all bills/expenses/savings/debts/funds, and extra left over to be our own seperate personal allowance for whatever we choose, so that we have the freedowm to make our own buying decisions in a fair way without the guilt & with security knowing the bills have been paid for. In seperate accounts or any way it will work. There is an imbalance and it causes tension.
Advice?
Joshua K | Jan 2, 2006
Cheers! That's quite a bit of debt. You'll have your work cut out for you. You'll do a lot better since both of you are on board and share the same goals. This is my first time finding this site, and look forward to what the two of you will have to write about. My wife and I have been married 3 years (together for 6), and we've been through financial and relationship ups and downs. The best tip I can give is to never give up on striving to make things better for the both of you. (btw, I think Suze's got a lot of good lessons to share with us, I'm assuming ya'll have read YF&B? We haven't yet, but I did get through The Courage To Be Rich)
I'm subscribing and adding a link from my site.
Happy new year!
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