Last week a long-time client contacted me to let me know there had been a fire in her rental home. This fire destroyed most of the inside of the house and almost all of her family’s belongings. They are now living in a hotel.
With a new year right in front of us, now is the perfect time to give yourself a head start preparing for a brighter financial future. While many New Year’s resolutions quickly fade to the back of the closet of good intentions, there are some easy ways to begin to bring you financial peace of mind.
To expand on our previous discussion of money and marriage we will discuss how you should pay bills when one spouse earns more than the other. This can be a difficult subject matter; the good news is that there are multiple ways to handle this and not just one “right” way to do so.
Being newly engaged, I have learned more than I could have ever imagined about colors, flowers, photographers, and the list goes on… It made me think that this is the beginning of a life-long journey where I will have a partner to help handle day-to-day financial concerns and to plan for the future.