Young, In Love, and Broke

The first step in getting out of debt is living within your means. We won’t do ourselves any good working out budgets, clipping coupons, or cutting out Starbucks if at the end of the day we still spend more than we have.
It seems like a basic principle, but in these times it seems to come up much more often than it should. For my husband and me, we’re barely making ends meet. That means if an unexpected expense arises, we often have a hard time finding a way to pay for...

There’s a longstanding historical marriage tradition called a dowry. A dowry is the money, goods, estate, and other assets that a bride brings to a marriage. For instance, my dowry consisted of a 1979 Mercury Zephyr station wagon and a box of old dishes...

After some consultation with some of the leading internet/media icons of money management it seems one of our first steps in creating a financially stable future is to be prepared for the unexpected. That is, to have enough money saved to cover unexpected...

My husband needs new boxers and socks desperately. We’re way beyond the point of a casual need for replacement where a seam is starting to spread, or the material is thinning, or even a little hole in the pinky toe area. Let me make this as clear as...