4 Tips for Overcoming Financial Stress in Marriage

Arguments over money and how money is managed may seem inevitable in any relationship. After all, it’s hard enough to make the right financial choices without taking into account someone else’s feelings and ideas. It can be even more difficult when you are both coming from different financial angles and pasts. So if your styles of dealing with money are different, here are 4 tips for overcoming financial stress in marriage. Be frank in discussing how you and your families handled money and how it went when you were growing up. It’s important for both of you to understand where … Continue reading

70s Music – Top Ten Albums of the Decade

When I first thought of this blog, I thought “Oh man, this will be easy.” Turned out it was actually difficult. There was a lot of good music in the 70s from all genres. There are albums I overlooked, but this list is my own personal list. 10. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971) This album showed a new side of Marvin, already a popular artist when he released What’s Going On. He incorporated in it all the social issues of the time including poverty, drug abuse, and war. 9. Van Halen – Van Halen (1978) This album shows … Continue reading

Keeping Money in Your Pocket

In my last article titled “When Will the Ends Meet”, I described how to begin to create a budget. Of course one key to financial success is creating the budget and sticking to it. For single parents many times the expenses consistently exceed the monthly income. When this happens debt will occur that is sometimes nearly impossible to get out of. Credit cards can be useful in some situations, but not in helping meet the month to month expenses on a long term basis. The finance charges can really affect your financial health for the rest of your life. For … Continue reading