Category: Money and Expenses

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3 Tips for Talking About Money When You’re in Love

3 Tips for Talking About Money When You’re in Love

Talking about money when you’re in love can be stressful, whether your relationship is three months old or 30 years old! These tips for talking about financial issues are from finance expert Carla Morelli. “Many couples are reluctant to talk about money – whether it’s one partner in the couple or both – and it [...]

How to Save Money for a Home – 10 Money Tips for Couples

How to Save Money for a Home – 10 Money Tips for Couples

Knowing how to save money for a home requires some strategic financial planning. These ten money tips for couples will help you figure out mortgage rates, interest payments, credit scores, financial budgets, and insurance costs. Then, you can get busy feathering their love nest… Before the tips, a quip: “A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet [...]

Wedding Planning Tips For Engaged Couples

Wedding Planning Tips For Engaged Couples

Who better to give wedding planning tips than “The Money Couple”? These tips for money and love will help engaged couples plan their wedding – and help parents avoid spending gazillions of dollars on the wedding ceremony! ”Planning a wedding is stressful enough without money issues gumming up the works,” says “The Money Couple” Scott [...]

5 Ways to Make Your Wedding Memorable

5 Ways to Make Your Wedding Memorable

Planning a romantic, memorable wedding ceremony doesn’t have to break your wedding budget! These five tips for brides and grooms are simple, effective, and financially free. Here, Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD – the bestselling authors of four relationship books – describe how to plan the wedding of your dreams. “We know you want your [...]

Save Money on Getting Married – Budget Tips for Weddings

Save Money on Getting Married – Budget Tips for Weddings

What’s more important than a dream wedding for a bride and groom? Making sure you have enough money for marriage, that’s what! These budget tips will help you save money on getting married and help increase financial security after the wedding. Before the tips, a quip: “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but [...]

How to Get Out of Debt for Newlyweds

How to Get Out of Debt for Newlyweds

Newlyweds’ money problems can put a damper on the honeymoon, but there are ways to solve an early financial crunch in marriage! These tips for getting out of debt for newlyweds will help couples pay bills and create financial abundance… First, a quip about money and marriage: “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the [...]

Attracting More Money in Love Relationships

Attracting More Money in Love Relationships

Making more money as a couple in a love relationship can be as simple as creating a budget and sticking to it! These financial tips for couples are from money guru Andrew Housser of Bills.com, who says that 75% of couples argue about finances regularly. Before his tips, a quip: “A successful marriage requires falling in love [...]

10 Ways Financial Problems Can Strengthen Love Relationships

10 Ways Financial Problems Can Strengthen Love Relationships

If you think money woes can only cause arguments and strife in marriage, you might be surprised to learn that financial problems can actually strengthen love relationships! Here, therapist Gilda Carle describes ten ways money problems can make your love life better (and bring things up, not down)… “When money is removed from the table, love becomes its own currency,” [...]

Men, Women, and Money – 11 Different Ways of Seeing Money

Men, Women, and Money – 11 Different Ways of Seeing Money

Do wives view money in terms of relationships, and do husbands use money to keep score? Yes, according to these differences in the way husbands and wives handle money! Knowing how men and women approach personal finance can strengthen your marriage – especially if you often fight about money… Here’s what Lois Frankel says about money and women [...]

Money Before Marriage – 6 Issues to Settle Before Getting Married

Money Before Marriage – 6 Issues to Settle Before Getting Married

Finances for engaged couples involves figuring out your money before marriage. If you’re an engaged couple planning a wedding, you need to figure out your finances before you walk down the aisle! Here are six “money before marriage” tips – because you discuss your financial goals before you get married. “Should we marry our money before we [...]