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How Sharing a Car Has Helped Our Joint Finances

January 16th, 2013 | 33 Comments

How Sharing a Car Has Helped Our Joint Finances

Kyle and I have completely joint finances – no allowances or “blow money” or anything similar – because 1) we agree on most everything anyway, 2) I don’t think we have a high enough income to spend on things we can’t both agree to, and 3) we don’t know how to halt the creep of separate finances that starts with designating any money as “mine” and “yours” instead of “ours.”   Not only do we have joint … Read entire article »

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The Financial Implications of Dropping One Car

March 7th, 2012 | 35 Comments

The Financial Implications of Dropping One Car

We have decided to become a one-car family!  If you remember, three weeks ago my car wouldn’t start and we found out it needed $1,600 in repairs.  We paid $400 to get it running and evaluated the possibility of relying completely on Kyle’s car until we start working at different places.  (We don’t want to sell the car because it still has a lot of miles left in it.  Kyle will graduate in a year-ish … Read entire article »

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Weekly Update 4

February 26th, 2012 | 5 Comments

We had a rather busy week in terms of after-work activities.  In addition to our usual ones, we attended a lecture on science and faith by a mathematics professor from Oxford and watched a basketball game with friends.  On Friday night we went to a wine and cheese party with some friends – delicious!  Kyle also has been working super hard on a software release for his research so he’s been putting in lots of hours on that.  Using only one car has been going pretty well!  I had to catch a ride from a friend once this week and we had a morning or two of getting-out-of-the-house tension but we’re managing.   Posts I Liked SB at One Cent at a Time shared how devoting increased time to his blog caused his … Read entire article »

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Weekly Update 3

February 19th, 2012 | 7 Comments

Weekly Update 3

Our week was fairly consumed with dealing with my car.  We went to bed Tuesday night without a decision on what to do.  We had discussed our options extensively (with whiteboards!) and couldn’t come to a clear resolution, so I left it up to Kyle to decide.  He woke up Wednesday morning with a great proposition: commit to the one-car experiment for two weeks without making any other changes, and if that goes well we … Read entire article »

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