Do Savers Marry Spenders?
October 10, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under finances, financial matters
My husband is a spender and I am a saver. I think I’ve worn off on him a bit over the years. He looks for bargains, searches for product reviews, and shops online and in the stores for the best deal he can find before laying out the hard earned dough. He’s even known to haggle in the stores. Still, he is a spender and I try to clinch hang on to our money so that we can be financially secure for our future and emergencies.
According to a new study, savers are attracted to spenders. How can this be? With …read more
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 …read more
