This Cheapskate column titled “We Managed to Sell our Home and Keep our Marriage Intact” from the Wall Street Journal hit home for me — no pun intended. Columnist Neal Templin talks about the stress that selling their home put on his marriage. His wife wanted to spend money to get the house sold; he didn’t. On top of that, they were moving from Dallas to New York. And of course, they have kids.
I’m not in the exact same boat. We’re moving into a house, but we didn’t have to sell one. We don’t have to move out of state. Neither one of us is switching jobs. (And I don’t work for the Wall Street Journal, although it would be nice.) But we do have work to do on the house before we move in. Lots of big and little things to take care of. And we both have full-time jobs, a couple of freelancing gigs plus of course the full-time job that is our baby. So my husband and I are both plenty tired and irritable and stressed out about the sheer amount of what we have to accomplish and the sheer amount of money we’re spending. I hope pretty soon I’m writing a blog post titled “We Managed to Move into our Home and Keep our Marriage Intact.”
