Erz is half-Asian, IIRC.
Push 'em in that direction by not having a registry and explaining the concept of red envelopes. Even the hubs' Hungarian family played along.
Ugh, mortgages. Something the hubs and I are NOT looking forward to. We'd be happy renting in the foreseeable future, because we have no idea where we want to live for 10+ years. Plus in California where our jobs are likely are, a decent house costs around a million dollars.
It's not free and clear owning - you have to pay for maintenance, and even then, you'll only make your money back if you can sell it at a higher price, which often means renovation. In some areas of the country, people are trapped where they are because they can't sell their house, and they don't have enough money to rent/buy another place somewhere else.
Well if she has a bridal party, that's what the registry is for. If I had to go into my registry and manually change things to say that they've been bought, prior to the wedding, I will.Push 'em in that direction by not having a registry and explaining the concept of red envelopes. Even the hubs' Hungarian family played along.
Plus we live in a studio apartment, there was ACTUALLY a legitimate reason we did not have a registry. One of my (Asian!!!) relatives gave us a portable Wolfgang Puck grill to drag back downstate. It's sitting right now in the closet shelf. Wolfgang Puck leers at me when I change.
I direct deposit in my savings and take out exactly enough to pay my bills. That's how I maximize my savings. I max out on my Roth IRA and put in $35 or so a month into mutual funds.
Well if she has a bridal party, that's what the registry is for. If I had to go into my registry and manually change things to say that they've been bought, prior to the wedding, I will.
That's true, but we have NO room (seriously, NO ROOM, it's a 500sq ft studio), and I prefer money.
And hubs is a minimalist, so he'd probably agree to sell the Roomba or waffle maker anyway. 
How much is the interest and how often do you get paid?
So you get $120 bi-weekly? How do you live!?
Whoops, my bad - I read the "I made 120 from just the one app" as if that was your main source of income.
It's harder than it looks. I'm on Elance for web design, and I'm competing with teams from India who are willing to do even ecommerce sites for under minimum wage. TEAMS from India, as in, each person probably gets $1/hour at the end.
I need to learn Wordpress, PHP, and Javascript pretty quickly or else I can't compete at all. I'm still thinking I'm going to take the time to do internships and specialize instead of being a one-stop shop whose only option is competing with foreign teams willing to work for pennies. You don't need a college degree to learn it, but you do need to put in the hours. I have an acquaintance who heard that he could make $60K/year after 2 months of hardcore programming training (5 hours a day at least), so that's what he's going to do. Because he's Asian and that's how all the stereotypical Asian folks choose their livelihoods.
If you want to use that site, my advice is to know your strengths and leverage them. I probably don't push as hard in my proposals as I should, because even I know how to build a website in general, most people are looking for something they can maintain themselves, ie a CMS, ie Worldpress because that's the one they've heard of.
Wordpress in its most basic form is pretty easy, but of course I'm not making it easy on myself learning it the first time. I'd probably have to do it a few more times before demanding money for it, haha. I'm such an Asian chick... And when I met her, I had no idea that she could make such a connection for me. It's very likely that someone you know might need design work (or whatever work it is), even if it's a friend of a friend.
