The following is a guest post by Marci from Overcoming Busy: I am in no way a financial guru. Don’t take any advice from me about balancing your checkbook or budgeting or investments. What I can share with you are some principles that my husband and I have learned over the past 7 years of being self-employed. We don’t have the whole financial thing figured out, but I can tell you we are a lot farther along that we were before learning these things. Not only did these principles help us financially, but it helped our stress levels go down. Face it; nothing stresses couples out like money!