My wife and I are going to the Twin Cities!  Don’t worry, we’ll be back on Sunday night, so there will be more fun family finance stuff for you to read on Monday morning.  I don’t know if we’ll get to go see the collapsed bridge, or anything like that, but I’m sure we’ll be […]

The wife and I will be going on the road for the next couple of weekends, and I am looking for some people to write a guest post or two so we don’t have another dead weekend at financingyourfamily.com.  I’m looking for someone to write on personal finance, or family issues, and in return, I […]

I decided to break the checking account posts up into smaller chunks since they are a larger part of the total scope of banking products (and where I have more expertise).
Once again I do work for a financial institution, and no, they didn’t ask me to write this.  This blog is 100% separate from my work.
There […]

We’ll get to the banking products later on today, but first I wanted to discuss something with everyone:  How much is your time worth?  This is something my wife and I take into consideration now when we are debating over making something or purchasing the same thing elsewhere.
 We’ve found a kind of continuum of time […]

Well everyone, this little miniseries is over now, and it’s time to talk about commitment.  I’ve only been married for six months, so this is going to be mainly things that people with “successful” marriages have told me.

Love is not an emotion, it’s a verb.  This sounds odd to Americans, but the feeling we call […]

I read many different personal finance blogs daily, but it is clear that they are too big to pay any attention to me.  This is a call to all of the smaller personal finance blogs, and if you’re reading this and know someone who is starting a personal finance blog, or has a small one, […]

I have some goals for this site that are more personal than anything else, but two of them were reached last night, and I want to thank all of you who comment and read this site regularly.
 First, we finally got 100 visitors in a day!  Can you believe that 100 people stopped by to improve […]

“We never talk anymore.”
If you or your spouse says this, congratulations, it’s time to work on communication.  Good communication is needed so that you can meet each others’ needs.  It is necessary to create a good example for children.  Finally it will help you to argue effectively.
The first step to good communication is to know […]

Just some neat math to consider.  3 different people, the first goes to starbucks infrequently (1 time a week or less).  The second goes regularly (once a day). The third is a Starbucksaholic (3 or more times a day).  Let’s say each person spends $4 each purchase.
Person A:

Spends $16 a month, or $192 a year […]

Abuse can encompass a lot of things.  Sexual, emotional, physical, alcohol, drug, and others can all show their ugly heads and ruin a marriage.  A majority of these can be stopped cold with marital accountability and good communication.
 One that my wife and I face is alcohol abuse.  My family has a history of alcohol abuse […]