First would be to work on a budget...to understand that you will now have a budget and would need to lay our all your expenses. Both of you would need to be on the same page.
Second, learning how to pay bills on time. Probably we haven't done too much of that before we got married so putting that on our schedule.
Learning how to put away some money every month or so. Depending on the income, you will need to come up with an investment plan, especially if you have loans.
Learning how to prioritize. Like is it importnat to pay off a credit card that month or to buy the new dinner set.
That is great advice, probably the most crucial aspect, finances.
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Thats a dream come true. I became some what "stable" ---> if there is such a thing. With out help from family. Not that they did not want to help OR they were not able to help, Its just I wanted do life at my own.
Now if I find a chick and go back home with a baby or 2 that would be awesome.
ITs not that our family don't luv each other...
To me-- the made me....they protected me when I was vulnerable... thats more then I could wish for.
u know what I mean??
Monk, that's what we want to achieve, to get out of the frame that 'oh family is there to help', and instead, learn to think outside the box. Both of us come from very close knit families but now instead of our parents treating us like kids, we want to grow out of that and make decisions on our own, and learn to be more responsible. For instance, let's say we have a kid who needs to be picked up from school but neither of us can do it.. we don't want us to be like, oh mom or dad can pick our kid up, we want to think beyond that and say, shoot what do we do now.. learn to troubleshoot our issues ourselves.
That's what we have seen our parents do and we admire them so much, I feel like they are very 'street smart' and intelligent because they have dealt with and resolved life problems first hand without anyone's support, and that is so admirable.. we hope that one day, our kids can say the same about us, iA.
