I thought I was really clever by calling the blog links "blinks". I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this, but I felt like I was, so there you go.
Those are the Personal Finance blogs I read everyday. They are my inspiration to make this blog and I only hope to eventually equal the quality and frequencies of their postings.
Blinks, I think that's a good one.
Regards,
M
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Welcome to Newlywed Finance
Welcome!
This is the first installment of what will hopefully be many blog posts regarding my journey through the treacherous yet fulfilling subject of my personal finance and personal finance in general. There is a Mrs. Newlywed, and she will be involved as well from time to time with guest posts.
Here's a bit of backstory:
Mrs. Newlywed and I were married on September 15, 2006. We were engaged for about a year and a half before we tied the knot and had dated for about 5 years before that. Her family is excellent with money. Mine, not so good. So it was a meeting of two different money cultures and it has been somewhat of an uphill battle with our personal finances since we've met. We are both relatively calm people, so we've never screamed at each other over the issue of money, but we have had to have frank discussions, create budgets, create new budgets when we didn't stick to the old ones, and so on.
The absolute best decision we ever made was to stop using credit cards entirely and pay only cash. I'll post a blog about just this topic in the near future.
We now have a detailed budget, an emergency fund, 401k and a Roth IRA, vacation savings and are on our way to buying a home next year.
The purpose of this blog is to track our progress while detailing our journey so far. I'm excited about it and I hope a few other Personal Finance bloggers are too.
Regards,
M
This is the first installment of what will hopefully be many blog posts regarding my journey through the treacherous yet fulfilling subject of my personal finance and personal finance in general. There is a Mrs. Newlywed, and she will be involved as well from time to time with guest posts.
Here's a bit of backstory:
Mrs. Newlywed and I were married on September 15, 2006. We were engaged for about a year and a half before we tied the knot and had dated for about 5 years before that. Her family is excellent with money. Mine, not so good. So it was a meeting of two different money cultures and it has been somewhat of an uphill battle with our personal finances since we've met. We are both relatively calm people, so we've never screamed at each other over the issue of money, but we have had to have frank discussions, create budgets, create new budgets when we didn't stick to the old ones, and so on.
The absolute best decision we ever made was to stop using credit cards entirely and pay only cash. I'll post a blog about just this topic in the near future.
We now have a detailed budget, an emergency fund, 401k and a Roth IRA, vacation savings and are on our way to buying a home next year.
The purpose of this blog is to track our progress while detailing our journey so far. I'm excited about it and I hope a few other Personal Finance bloggers are too.
Regards,
M
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