[zacsmum]

Hi, I'm Emma, i'm 22 and live an hour outside of Sydney, Australia. I've been engaged to a wonderful man for 3 1/2 years and we have a 10 month old son. We were hopeless with our money before our son was born and literally moved into my parents house while i was in hospital having the baby because we realised we couldn't afford for me to have maternity leave otherwise. We are moving back out on our own in just two months so i'm here trying to soak up as much money saving information as i can to prepare myself. I make all the decisions when it comes to our finances because that's the way my partner wants it, he says it's his job to earn the money and my job to spend it. I only work part time now that i am a mum because i don't want strangers raising my children and i'm going to have more time to implement money saving techniques such as cooking from scratch, packing work lunches, shopping around, using cloth nappies,etc