Comments | _marriedlife_: Another money question..

penguinsane in _marriedlife_

Another money question..

Dec 09, 2007 13:34

This is related to the last money question, but a bit different, so I thought to make a post about it ( Read more... )

Comments 49

verygwen December 9 2007, 19:54:13 UTC

I'm a housewife. All of the money that comes into our relationship is "our money." We don't exchange gifts at the holidays, we tend to buy each other things throughout the year. We've never considered the money to be anything other than "our money" so this has never been a concern for us.

faeriesong December 9 2007, 19:54:18 UTC

I am a SAHM and what's his is mine. :-) I get him gifts just as I would if I had a separate job. I do give him a ballpark figure on what I want to spend though since he handles the budget.

pinkgerbil December 9 2007, 19:55:19 UTC

Its our money, rather than his. I do the bills, thus earning my keep. My husband couldn't pay his way out of a cardboard box. He would die from cold and malnurtrition if I wern't here.

alive49 December 9 2007, 19:55:42 UTC

I'm a housewife for now and to complicate matters further, I don't drive, so I mostly shop through catalogs so he doesn't know what he's getting. We don't really save up money specifically for gifts though.

alive49 December 9 2007, 19:59:19 UTC

Oh, and his money is mine and vice versa, but I did contribute some savings from when I worked in high school and college.

kitashla December 9 2007, 20:05:56 UTC

I am a full time student and a stay at home mom. For most of our relationship I've been a stay at home mom as that was the decision we made when we decided to have kids. No daycare if we can avoid it. It means that we've been hella poor most of our marriage but it works for us ( ... )

oduschone December 9 2007, 21:01:44 UTC

Your answer sounds just like us... I could have written this myself! We're living on next to nothing, but it's *our* nothing! :)

scongioloso December 9 2007, 22:15:42 UTC

This is also exactly like our situation. His is mine, mine is his. He knows I work hard to keep our house and kids going every day. We have been married nearly 6 years and it works for us. I am a full-time college student too and in two years when I am done with nursing school and making big bucks, my money will be his too...

And our Christmas is the same way...I do ALL the shopping so I can get his gifts easily without him knowing anything about the cost (but we do set an amount for each other every year).

Although he works and brings the money home, I manage all the bills. So he is usually the one coming to me saying "I need to buy __ how much extra money do we have this week?"