admin | October 7, 2010
Judging by the huge number of publications in newspapers, Americans attach a great importance to weddings – but, as in Russia, it has different meanings. For example, one couple that had not had enough savings for the celebration decided to hold the event as kings anyway with the help of sponsors. The sponsors invested about 25 thousand dollars into the wedding logistics, were invited to the ceremony each bringing their advertising leaflets. I do not know whether it was effective for the sponsors to participate in it (for it was prohibited to directly advertise their businesses at the wedding), but the enterprising couple decided to build their new business based on this idea.
Category: Empowering Each Other, Family Matters, Life Without Limits, The Family Budget |
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Tags: how to make a bride's bouquet cost cheap and look good, how to make the guests help you during the wedding preparations
Liubov | August 12, 2010
This went on for six months. I carefully considered all costs without integrating budget items. I wanted to explore the quality of our life and to prove the necessity (or efficiency) of change having figures at hand. Six months later, I presented a financial report of all the colors of the rainbow, in which each budget item was calculated as a percentage from the total costs. And then something unexpected happened. My husband said, “Interesting. I would like to discuss it with you”… Our battles for rationality shifted into a discussion of efficiency, and it was a completely different level of relationship.
Category: Empowering Each Other, Family Matters, The Family Budget |
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Tags: family budget, how to improve relations with grown-up children, keeping accounts
admin | February 12, 2010
Oh, that financial (in-)dependence in marriage! How often a mere mention of some upcoming expenses gives rise to disputes and quarrels in a family! How do different families solve this problem? Each international family searches for and finds its own solutions that satisfy the needs of both spouses. Below, you will find a couple of ways to address this issue based on the experience of two different international couples.
Category: Family Matters, Letters As They Are, The Family Budget |
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Tags: a joint bank account, credit cards, dealing with money issues, debit cards, financial independence, freedom of choice, my wife is from Russia, ownership, personal bank account, self-sufficiency in marriage, The Family Budget, the financial independence of the spouses
