Happy (I Love My Thrifty Man)niversary!
July 11, 2008 by kadi
Filed under Fun Stuff, Simpler Thinking
Sheesh! Ten years? Where has the time gone? Today, my husband and I celebrate ten years of marriage. In that short amount of time, we have spent much accomplished much. We’ve created seven humans, purchased three houses, sold two houses, maxed out several credit cards, paid off almost all of those cards, gone grocery shopping over 520 times, spent over 15,000 dollars in doctor bills, bought four cars, saved a few thousand dollars, opened a 401k and started two businesses.
I look back on all of the money that we have spent in only ten years and it makes me ill to think of the next forty or more. Our kids are still young. We have not even begun to know what it is to struggle to afford raising our kids. There will be cars, proms, college funds and weddings. Thank God I only have two daughters! We may very well go bankrupt trying to keep up. Thank goodness my husband is a saver and a planner. If it were solely up to me, the one with umpteen pairs of shoes, all of our money would have been squandered away on Manolo Blahniks, long ago. We’d be broke as a joke, but my feet would be the talk of the town!
You see, after ten years of being married to my opposite, I am finally learning to see money in a whole new light. I am acquiring a taste for the thrifty lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, I my stomach still jumps when I get a Nordstrom catalogue in the mail. However, I have learned to resist the urge to shop and replace it with another thing I take joy in…blogging! Now, instead of spending money on the things I enjoy, I make money. My husband has taught me to fill the void of spending with more constructive things. He has taught me to budget, even though I’m not perfect at it yet. He has taught me to clip coupons and find the best shopping deals. I have learned a great deal about being thrifty, from him. It is one of the many things that I love about him!
