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My wife and I started dating when we were 19.   We married shortly thereafter, and-at 31-we have 3 kids.

Now, most of a decade into my career, with a dozen years of experience as both a husband and an adult, I think we make decent decisions.

When we were younger, though, we were [...]

10 Tips to Help Parents Stay Out of Debt

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People say that when you have a baby, your world gets flipped upside down. That’s not true. Your world gets dropped in a martini shaker and left to the whims of a sadistic bartender with a shaking fetish. Everything changes. That sounds like an exaggeration and nobody believes it until it happens, but [...]

Babies Are Expensive

From the comments here. The discussion is on how much it costs to have a baby. Edited for clarity.

Actual birthing costs vary. We’ve had three kids over ten years and birthing costs have varied from $250 out of pocket to $8500. Our highest and lowest price births were 20 months apart. The [...]