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May
Hello world!
Welcome to Family Finance Blog.
My wife and I just got married last year, we’re expecting a baby in August, and our life is changing quite a bit! In order to try and get our finances in order and to make sure that the transition works for us, we’re going to write about our finances here. We’ll talk about decisions we make and plans that we have, and how we’re doing in making life work.
When the baby comes, we’ll be going from two incomes to one, and trying to keep our life fairly simple in the mean time. Here’s hoping that we can make it all happen! I hope you’ll enjoy watching it (and participating) along with us.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Congrats on the soon-to-arrive little one. My wife and I are expecting our 3rd any week now! Another possible future topic for your blog: it would be interesting to get your thoughts on the various child-rearing philosophies out there (co-sleeping, breast feeding vs. the bottle, training/discipline, imparting values, etc.). Do you plan to do anything that you consider “different” in raising your child, or at least, differently than how you were raised?
I perused some of your posts. It really is quite amazing how important location is in considering cost of living. I’m shocked at the cost of an L.A. condo.
Where we live in Iowa (suburb of Des Moines), a nice 1700+ sq. ft. newly constructed home on a nice 9100 lot is only $185,000. Of course, incomes are probably a bit lower, too. We’re only pulling in about $70k per year, albeit on one income (hopefully I can bump this up a bit this year).
Jonathan
June 4th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Jonathan - Thanks for my first ever comment on my blog. =)
Articles about what we plan on doing differently are certainly a good idea. And I think we’re planning on doing many things “differently”, although the meaning of that word changes as the culture changes. We’ll do the co-sleeping, breast feeding, cloth diapering. We’re not zealots about these things, but we do believe that we should try them out first before trying other things.
As far as housing goes - our relative incomes are in line with our different housing costs, but you probably win on overall cost of living vs. income.