Category Archive: Relationships

May 13

Girl, Your Man’s Making You Broke: AKA Scrub Alert

**Just FYI: This post reads better if you hum TLCs awarding winning song, “No Scrubs” as background accompaniment. Before anybody gets upset, scrub-like behavior can be found in guys and girls.** Ever have a, “friend” cough cough, who’s significant other is a real user? You know, a first class, “scrub”? If you haven’t had this …

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May 10

My Mother is Wonder Woman & Happy Mother’s Day!

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As a woman, I’m intimately acquainted with the expectations put on women by our society, our peers and ourselves. Although I’m not a mother, I have a mother and I’ve seen the stress that she experienced trying to be “perfect” during my childhood. My parents divorced when I was 6 and she was my sole …

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Apr 24

Spending Without Spouse Approval

expensive car student debt survivor

There have been a lot of posts in the personal finance blogosphere recently about whether you should merge your finances together when you get married. And specifically if you should consider paying off your significant other’s debt. Brian over at Luke1428 and Grayson over at Debt Roundup both blogged about this topic recently. Grayson took …

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Apr 19

Library Nerd Saves Us Hundreds a Year

**We’ve borrowed all of these, and many more, from our local library over the past year** Bf is a total library nerd (love this about him). Bf spends so much time at the local library he knows the librarians (and they know him) on a first name basis. The best part? Bf saves us hundreds …

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