As the title of my blog suggests, my husband is a finance guy, or as I lovingly refer to him, a "nerd".  He has both a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Personal Financial Planning.  He is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and an Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC).  He has studied financial coaching techniques.  He knows about budgets, investments, loans, amortization, credit cards, etc.  If you have a question regarding anything relating to your money, he likely has an answer and if he doesn't he will find one.  He's a student of his craft.  He loves what he does and he is good at it.  Our family is in a better financial situation because of him and his financial knowledge base than we would ever have been otherwise.  However he's not the only one that knows a few things about money.  Over the years, I've picked up a thing or two as we've gone along.  It was bound to happen with the endless discussions we have, not all of whic...