My Debt Blog

A two days ago my wife and I hit the two year mark on our marriage. She is essentially working a job and a half this week, school in the morning and training for her summer job after that. With that being said, we decided it would be better to celebrate this time on the weekend. I think we’re going to go downtown Chicago and visit the Museum of Science and Industry which we haven’t been to in years. Best of all is she can get us in for free, along with some other places, as a perk of her new job. That evening we’re going out to dinner at the Olive Garden.

I remember last year the first anniversary was a huge stressful deal. We had to buy each other gifts, got a suite in a hotel, and ate at a very pricey restaurant. Last year the grand total of everything was probably over $500 and it just totally busted the month along with the car insurance bill. This year though we agreed that our home entertainment upgrade to HDTV was our gift to each other. So this weekend I’m estimating it will run at most $100, which still allows breathing room to deal with the car insurance bill this month.

When we started dating in college, every time we hit a year we would go out to a nice dinner. Six and a half years we’ve been together (two married) later I don’t see why it should be any different. I do think that when we hit a milestone, our ten year anniversary, we will take a vacation somewhere nice. What would be even better is to be debt free before that day comes. Most likely other things will happen along the way but it’s good to have a long term goal. We’ll stay DINKs for now though because neither of us desire family expansion right now. Two years married though and I think we have grown stronger than we were last year.

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