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Category Archives: Money in relationships
Creating & Maintaining Healthy Financial Boundaries
“You have to try tough love.” “Don’t be an enabler.” “I’m scared he won’t survive without my help.” “We’re all doing the best we can.” “We can’t afford that!“ “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” ~ … Continue reading
Can Financial Planning Keep You From Sinning?
“She’s really writing that? Who does she think she is?!” I am a financial planner who is trying to make the world a better place, that’s who I am. And for the world to be a better place, we all … Continue reading
The Joy of Giving (& Not Going Broke)
How can you be generous if you’re secretly worried about paying your bills? How can you really enjoy the holidays when you’re emotionally overwhelmed and feeling undone? Our own joyful budgeter Mari McNeil presented this very challenging subject and the … Continue reading
What a Personal Financial Policy is & How it Makes Your Life Better
Most of economic theory is based on the assumption that we make rational, logical, and beneficial financial decisions. Ha! Most of us make purely emotional (or “socially informed”) decisions about money most of the time, some of which may be … Continue reading
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Financial Survival Skills & The Fate of the Cake Plate
I decided I would save my family money by painting our kitchen myself. I’m a pretty good painter, a friend who is an interior designer helped me choose paint colors, and Home Depot offered a rebate on paint. The kitchen … Continue reading
What I See in My Work as a Financial Planner
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER TM professional and as President of Lauber Financial Planning, a Registered Investment Advisor, I have a code of confidentiality, so absolutely no names or identifying information will be shared here – or anywhere. Some years ago I … Continue reading
Family, Friends and Money: The Dysfunctional Trifecta
The February 6th meeting of the “I HATE Budgeting (But I Like Having Money)” support group focused on the dynamic between family members and friends when money is added to the mix. Boy-oh-boy was this an active discussion! I think … Continue reading
Loving Your Cheapskate Spouse
This post is not about my darling husband (whose own grandmother lovingly called, “Tighter than two coats of paint”). With that out of the way, I thought I’d share some insights into cheapskates / skinflints / tightwads / penny-pinchers and how … Continue reading
The Number of Black Shoes a Woman “Needs” & Why Husbands Are Really Into Lawn Care
I just concluded teaching a class to 1st graders for Junior Achievement. Adorable. One of our classes was about needs and wants. We played a game where I’d hold up a picture of something and they had to tell me … Continue reading
Want Your Wife To Shop (Spend) Less? Tell Her She’s Beautiful, Regularly
I’ve been following the blog Why Get Hitched, which is about the benefits of getting and staying married. It’s kind of awesome. This week the author wrote about Meghan Trainor’s song “Dear Future Husband” and the requests she makes, one of which is for him to … Continue reading
LIFE: Live Inspired, Financially Empowered 