My husband and I have totally different money personalities! He’s the saver and I’m the spender. We didn’t talk about our money personalities before we got married but seem to be able to work it out. What really worked for my husband is to realize that we do have enough money, that we won’t run out. That’s why he likes to save, because he grew up with a Depression mentality.

It can take years to become financially compatible, and effort as well. But if you keep working on your money habits, you can have a really happy marriage together. Even if you’re savers and spenders.

Joan R.

I enjoyed your article about finances and anxiety on Suite and added a comment to it. I really do think that beliefs and attitude play a huge role in handling money.

Gini
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I have to say, I’m so impressed with how you wrote those money articles. I feel like I can SEE your writing skills improve with every article you write. I guess practice really does make perfect

Keep up the good work!

Laurie
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I just posted two money articles for couples on Suite. One’s about identify the source of money problems and the other is on financial management. Here are the links:

Couples With Money Problems

Financial Management for Couples

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But I haven’t written specifically about law of attraction and money or couples and money so I think I will. Thanks for pointing out that I have a valuable teaching position on that – I hadn’t noticed before.

I’ll post a link here once I’ve written them (have a couple of other topics perculating right now though).

Gini
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Your comment has given me a great idea for an article, about how to organize your money for couples….have you ever written about the law of attraction and money? And, post the link here if you write an article about organizing your money for couples for Suite or Orato. You have lots of first-hand experience! Being self-employed and having different money personalities puts you in a valuable teaching position, my friend.

My hubby and I are both savers, so our money personalities are very compatible. He reads alot about investing, and I’m happy to just slap the savings into a money market fund or low-risk mutual fund.

I couldn’t be married to a spender…I’m too scared to be poor! I do spend money on vacations, though. And eating out once a week. My two “big spender” habits

Laurie
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What we’ve done to improve this situation is to create a budget so we know our monthly bottom line expenses. I’ve taken over responsibility for paying the bills so we each contribute what we need to a joint account for this. We also have money boxes that we put money in as we can – one is for play, one for travel, one for giving to charity, one for household big projects and one called financial freedom (long term savings). As the money acrues in the savings boxes we then create GIC’s etc from them. With the others, we get to spend from them each month if we like.

This way we are saving and spending at the same time. I make sure Richard actually puts some money into the boxes so he knows what it feels like to save instead of spend right away.
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