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How to Rebuild Financial Trust in Your Relationship

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If one of you is a spendthrift and one is a saver, financial feuding will be a given unless the two of you can find a way that is agreeable to both of you to manage your disparate financial personalities. These people may accrue thousands of dollars of debt on a credit card their spouse doesn’t even know about.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Folks who stay the course become more and more self sufficient financially as time goes one, eventually leading to the ability to weather economic, medical, and catastrophic storms that may come to each of us at any time. To someday be your own boss, without fear of running out of money, takes time and lots of persistence.

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Unintended Consequences

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you push in one direction, the organism may pop in several different directions. These members have been spendthrifts since day one and have been lobbying for several unneeded (in my opinion) improvements for several years. Confer with others to see what you may have missed. Examples of unintended consequences.

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Frugal decisions.

Finally Frugal

This may be especially useful for those of us who - whether currently or in our spendthrift past - may be likely to fritter that money away as soon as it shows up in our paychecks. I do know it might take a couple of months for human resources departments to get all the details down so we may not see it until February or March.

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