I know I don't need to do this, but I'd like to respond to a comment made about the "Stick Fire" post.  We're on a budget and date night a few weeks ago was grilling marshmallows on the deck.  Mike and I decided when we got married we would not try to continue to live at the level of lifestyle our parents have.  So many people we know or have heard about get married and spend and spend and spend and blow their paychecks and rack up tons of debt.  We could have easily done that.  There's so much fun stuff to do here in Columbus, but we decided that there are more important things to do in life.  Mike and I could have pursued money and found jobs serving this capitalist economy, but we chose jobs that help people.  We love what we do and what we spend our time doing.  There are important things in life and money is just not one of them.  Mike is such an amazing, loving husband, that I have to convince him not to spend too much money on me.  Budgets mean Mike honors our relationship by forming a budget for our spending.  We respect each other by sticking with it.  We honor each other as our bank account grows, because God has given us all the money we have.  We have seen many parts of the world where people are impoverished and hunger-stricken.  I will never in my life forget the night I prayed with a little girl for the peso (30 cents) to buy bread so her family could eat dinner that night.  God help me if I do forget.  So… yes, we could do more extravagant things with our money, but there's too much God has for us in this world to waste life worrying about greenness of our grass is, the size of our house, the luxury of our vacations, the newness of our music collections, the cable TV, the concert tickets, the…  STUFF that takes over our lives.