Building an emergency fund for families is not glamorous work. But definitely worth it. In 2024 we had to move. Not across town. From Danshui, the waterfront neighborhood where my wife and I had built our first life together as a married couple, where we had learned to budget, where our first child was born,…
I am not a financial advisor. Everything in this post is based on my personal experience and research. Please consult a qualified financial professional before making any investment decisions. If you read my last post, the one with the year-by-year numbers showing how $30 a month grew to $23,000 over six years and your first…
I am not a financial advisor. Everything in this post is based on our personal experience and is for informational purposes only. Please consult a qualified financial professional before making any investment decisions. Couple of posts ago, I wrote how we started investing $30 a month and results. Today I am going to go into…
Nobody warns you about this part. The talking about money as a couple part. How financial communication can be the most choppy waters to navigate at the beginning of your marriage journey together. Everyone talks about the big things in marriage. Communication, trust, making decisions together. But nobodyreally sits you down before the wedding and…
I am not a financial advisor. Everything on this blog is based on our personal experience and is for informational purposes only. Please consult a qualified financial professional before making any investment decisions. I want to show you something. In 2020, the same month we moved into our tiny apartment in Danshui with $2000 in…
If you’ve ever Googled “how to budget on one income” or “family budget on one income” you’ve probably found advice written by people who consider $3,000 a month tight. This isn’t that kind of post. For six years my wife and I lived on a missionary income in Taiwan. Somewhere between $1,200 and $1,500 a…
I hate to title this first post as “Missionary Money Lessons.” But it is where our story began and it is the truth that our time as missionaries shaped our entire paradigm of money and views on finances. I still remember sitting in our tiny apartment in Danshui, Taipei staring at our bank account on…