As one of 7 children, there was never much money to go around when I was growing up. Families had much less disposable income than many do today. As a result, we became financially independent from our parents much sooner than today’s kids – we had to. Many expats on overseas assignments are, comparatively speaking, [...]
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Money and children
Posted in Money on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Managing money in many locations
Posted in Money on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many of us have bank accounts, money, houses, dependent family members and kids in many locations. Internet banking is a great resource (how did anyone ever do without it?) yet we still face challenges. Sometimes we are so busy looking after the kids, home and family in general we leave the finances to our partners. [...]
Making a Will
Posted in Money on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just had an amazing weekend in Mexico with our daughter and flew back on Tuesday. I thought – as I always do – what would happen if the plane crashed? How would our kids divide everything – or worse, what would the government do with everything we own? I admit to [...]
Power Shopping
Posted in Money on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My sister is a whiz at Power Shopping and it has really worked well for me too. She was a city girl for most of her adult life and then her husband’s uncle left them a farm. So IT specialist and accountant went ‘bush’ as they say back home. Now she lives about 2 hours [...]
Binge Shopping
Posted in Money on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As expat spouses, many of us can probably admit to the odd spot of binge shopping. We may have had this great big lonely day ahead of us – partner working late, no ‘work’ to keep us busy and children at school (or in my case, in another country) and thought – ‘I know, I’ll [...]
Ours, mine or his?
Posted in Money on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We fall in love, get married, have babies and somehow never talk about who is the ‘boss’ of the money. Because we never actually discussed or agreed on it before we got married, it seems weird to bring it up now. It kind of all works out – doesn’t it? Many marriage guidance counsellors say [...]
Money gremlins
Posted in Money on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How would you describe your relationship with money? Do you love it, hate it, spend it voraciously, lock it away or avoid it? Many of our childhood experiences contributed to our beliefs about money and how it ‘should’ be used (or put under the mattress). The way we interact with it as adults can range [...]
