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12:29 am December 5, 2012
| LiveWellOnLess
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Hi Everyone, (first thread!)
I struggle a lot with communicating about money to my other half, and the importance of getting out of debt and budgeting properly – she's pretty much pay cheque to pay cheque.
I've had a lot of ideas about how to go about getting her to understand where I'm coming from, and getting her on side with my ideas, and I shall write a new blog post about that soon, but I've found a few posts by other members quite helpful, so I'm thinking I'll add in a bunch of links to posts like these. I mean, everyone has a different voice, a different take, and sometimes a post doesn't speak to you, and sometimes, it's like it's been written for your exact situation.
SO – If you have a post that you'd like promoting about couples and dealing with money together, please post the link on this thread and I'll use the one's I think are most appropriate.
Thanks
Matt
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6:00 am December 5, 2012
| Edward Antrobus
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Mine probably won't be a lot of help to you, but a few weeks ago, I talked about why we have partially-separate finances.
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10:30 am December 5, 2012
| Michelle (Making Sense of Cents)
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2:57 pm December 5, 2012
| LiveWellOnLess
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Hi Edward,
Thanks, that IS just the thing actually, we have separate personal accounts too. BTW, I like your latest blog about finding cheap gas, I've just done a post about making your car go further on your fuel which kinda compliments it, so I retweeted it.
Hi Michelle! Thanks for your posts, I've read them all and there's definitely a few points I can take from them, cheers
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3:17 pm December 5, 2012
| Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I think the first problem is that she lives paycheque to paycheque instead of paycheck to paycheck. Just kidding. I thought I would throw in a bit of stupid American humor.
I would check out Elle's blog – Couple Money
That is a great blog by a great writer.
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6:05 pm December 5, 2012
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1:35 am December 6, 2012
| LiveWellOnLess
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Eric – NarrowBridge.net said:
I think the first problem is that she lives paycheque to paycheque instead of paycheck to paycheck. Just kidding. I thought I would throw in a bit of stupid American humor.
I would check out Elle's blog – Couple Money
That is a great blog by a great writer.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll certainly read my way through that later…
On your humour:
The difference between English used by English and non english people is fascinating. I don't subscribe to the theory that just because I am English my spelling/pronunciation/grammar is correct or superior. It used to annoy me somewhat, but after looking into it, it turns out there are many examples in American/Canadian speech where the difference is down to our friends across the pond actually using the original word, and the metamorphasis has occurred in England. For example, when you talk about the season before Winter, or Fall as you call it, we call it Autumn, although Fall (the season) was in common useage over here a century ago, it is no longer used at all for this meaning.
In terms of cheques though, the word is originally french (as you can probably guess from the spelling), so nyer nyer!! :P
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1:48 am December 6, 2012
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Squirrelers said:
I've got a number of such posts on Tie the Money Knot.
Here are a few:
Changing Your Partner's Money Habits
Financial Warning Signs
Money Fights Couples Have
I see you have a whole section about marriage and money. I shall wade through that too, thanks a bunch ![Smile](/wordpress/wp-content/forum-smileys/sf-smile.gif)
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6:21 am December 6, 2012
| Edward Antrobus
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LiveWellOnLess said:
The difference between English used by English and non english people is fascinating. I don't subscribe to the theory that just because I am English my spelling/pronunciation/grammar is correct or superior. It used to annoy me somewhat, but after looking into it, it turns out there are many examples in American/Canadian speech where the difference is down to our friends across the pond actually using the original word, and the metamorphasis has occurred in England. For example, when you talk about the season before Winter, or Fall as you call it, we call it Autumn, although Fall (the season) was in common useage over here a century ago, it is no longer used at all for this meaning.
I've always been somewhat interested in US English vs "Queen's English" A lot of the changes were proposed by Noah Webster in the early 19th century because he wanted the US to have distinct language from England in a time when the two countries were still enemies.
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I'm looking for editors, beta-readers, and some demographic research for my upcoming novel, Once Upon a Saturn Moon. If you like reading soft sci-fi thrillers, maybe with a touch of romance thrown in, you can find more information at http://seampublishing.com/once…..aturn-moon
If You Can Read, You Can Cook – http://www.ifyoucanread.com | Think you can't cook? If you can read this sentence, then you can.
SEAM Publishing – http://www.seampublishing.com | eBook formatting and publishing service
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9:27 am December 6, 2012
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Ah, Noah Webster! It seems that his wish is dying. According to the BBC, by trading TV shows and reading each others news on the web, the reverse is happening.
I give you this for your delectation – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga…..19670686 ![Cool](/wordpress/wp-content/forum-smileys/sf-cool.gif)
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2:59 am December 10, 2012
| John @ DebtAdviceResource
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That's a really interesting suggestion. My wife and I argued about money for years. There was never enough of the stuff. The problem was I kept trying to make my money meet my life expectations, instead of fitting my life expectations to my financial budget.
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9:36 pm December 14, 2012
| evolvingPF
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11:54 am December 18, 2012
| Ted Jenkin @ YourSmartMoneyMoves
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7:21 am December 27, 2012
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OK, many thanks everyone. I've finished the article and I've included article links or homepages for you all. It's postdated to go live tonight, and I'll come back here and post the URL, ('cos I'll know what it is then). Ta for all your help.
M
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