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August 05, 2003
Great Idea for a Financial Planning Advice Book: "How Other Couples Do It"
This would be a very simple book to write: You'd interview something like 30 couples of various backgrounds and ask them to tell the story of the financial side of their relationship. How do they divide resources? How do they pay bills? How did they come to their decisions? What kinds of fights and struggles did they have to resolve them? how do things change with kids, divorce, etc. etc.
There wouldn't be a whole lot of analysis, just little introductions giving you the demographics and a summary. Maybe pictures, but probably not as we might want to use pseudonyms.
This is one of those ideas I had because I wanted it to exist -- and maybe it already does (I haven't checked). I was asking my various coupled friends how they'd done it, but it can be a very private topic, so getting the dirt from strangers might be better.
Posted by mary at August 5, 2003 10:12 AM
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I'm reduced to commenting on my own blog entries.
Also, in the demographics you'd want to make sure you had gay as well as straight and married as well as cohabitating couples, just to show how laws effected people's financial decisions differently.
Posted by: Mary at August 5, 2003 10:23 AM
I kinda feel like this book would collect:
1. Anecdotes
2. Charts of specific financial arrangements
By taking a pseudo-scientific approach to the topic, I think we could interview maybe 30 couples and come up with a complete book full of wacky methods and info-tainment charts/graphs. This is one of those exciting opportunities for book-writing involving money which make me want to write books (in other words: let's do this).
;Chris
Posted by: Chris Higgins at August 18, 2003 12:09 AM