Jade Warshaw

You know, she wants to look at spreadsheets, and I just want to go, you know, buy Pokemon cards or whatever.

And so the fact that you already know, like, oh, I can be a lot with my spreadsheets, and she likes to have really nice things all the time.

The fact that you already know that now, that's a good thing.

Dave has taught this for years.

And he passes this wisdom along, and I'll pass it along to you.

He says, when you're combining it for the first time, and one of you is like a dyed-in-the-wool nerd, and one of you is a free spirit, the nerd makes the first pass of the budget.

And then, to quote Dave, they pass it across the table, and then they shut their mouth.

And they let their spouse look at it.

And A, there's going to be what I would call principled things like, hey, you have $19 a week for us to eat on.

Actually, I've been to a grocery store.

Food costs $300 a week.

So we have to adjust that.

And so there's the practical changes, right?

You have $9 a month for water bill.

I like to shower more than 32 seconds.

And you're like, we're nerd family.

We can get done with showers quicker, right?

Yeah.

And so then there's a practical, and then there's the, hey, what if we enjoyed our life too?

What if we lived?