Practicalities

Posted by on December 4th, 2008 at 01:09am

Citizen Haines wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Communication: First, the money saving part.  Both of us use the basic Verizon voice plan.  This gives us unlimited minutes everyday!  Through work, we get ~15% discounts on the monthly bills.  With 3 hrs time difference between us, we’ve basically worked out a daily phone conversation routine of calls at around 9pm PST.  Most calls last about an hour or until someone falls asleep.  Conversation typically goes as follows: greeting, update on daily events, discuss plans/to-dos, and whatever else that comes to mind (more on this later).  Whomever is bored or tired usually initiates the call.  Sometimes, calls happen earlier and end before bed time.  A good night call then follows before one of us goes to bed.
Finance: This is a tough one since we each have several banking and investment accounts, and credit cards.  Since we’ve never lived together, we’ve kept them pretty much separate with each of us managing our own earnings, expenses, and investments.  This is […]

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