Elizabeth Brokamp

Those are things that we do as a matter of routine.

So pretty standard stuff.

Yeah, looking for deals has definitely gotten easier than it was in 2000.

You know, there are things like Rakuten, there's grocery store digital coupons, just being able to Google discount codes.

And those are things that I definitely do as a matter of course.

I give us an A on that category, especially because I think that we often try to buy used.

You know, if you look around our house, we call it the house that Facebook Marketplace built because of all the decor coming from other people's things that they're getting rid of.

And the exception for me would be holiday gift giving.

I would say that if you call something a gift, I'm much less inclined to seek out a bargain.

And that would be an area that I'd love to track a little bit better.

Yeah, we were talking about finding a way to commit to some kind of regular touching base activity.

opportunity related to our finances.

So in the original manifesto, we said we'd meet every Thursday.

But this morphed into what we call the Sunday summit, which is kind of like a life planning session for the week.

And finances often are a part of that.

So we talk about the schedule and who has to do what.

And this became really important, especially as we had kids who were doing zillions of activities throughout the week.

This is probably Sunday Summit is probably my favorite thing that we've done, not only because I like you, Robert, and I like spending time with you, but also because I think that so many problems can be avoided if you identify the pain points early and take some steps to deal with them.

So and then I think that.

Being flexible, learning to be flexible when life gets in the way so that we're not able to do it, or when we're coming at an issue from different vantage points and we need to kind of diffuse rather than meet in person.