Weekly Poll - S.O. budget help

**Russ** · 09-02-2010, 02:19 PM

How much does your significant other help with the budget?

**Russ** · 09-02-2010, 02:36 PM

If you care to share, tell us what it took to get your spouse on board.

**MTS04** · 09-02-2010, 02:44 PM

DH doesn't contribute much to the budgeting. But he was totally on board about cutting back, sticking to an allowance once I showed him how quickly we could pay off all of our bills.

We now have an FFEF and are currently working the mortgage down. In the beginning, he was very surprised when I recieved the title for my car 15 months after buying it. it was in our snowball.

I've let the purse-strings go a little, but we still have a budget. He's enjoying a larger slush fund to play with each month. he's very rarely wiped it out. I'm very proud of him for budgeting his fun money.

as far as writing the budget, he won't do it. He says : I suck at math, you let me know what the numbers are. I would really like him to know, since if somehting happened to me, the ball is in his court when the bills come in. I'm working on him slowly and trying to make it more math friendly for his dyslexic mind.

**Ceashels** · 09-02-2010, 03:05 PM

I had to tie Greebo to a chair and force him to watch Dave Ramsey 24 hrs straight. When his eyelids started to get heavy I used toothpicks to hold them open and poured caffeinated coffee down his gullet.

**Russ** · 09-02-2010, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Ceashels

I had to tie Greebo to a chair and force him to watch Dave Ramsey 24 hrs straight. When his eyelids started to get heavy I used toothpicks to hold them open and poured caffeinated coffee down his gullet.

Next time you do anything like this just remember....

**Greebo** · 09-02-2010, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Ceashels

I had to tie Greebo to a chair and force him to watch Dave Ramsey 24 hrs straight. When his eyelids started to get heavy I used toothpicks to hold them open and poured caffeinated coffee down his gullet.

It's true!

But I still maintain you could have waited until AFTER I converted to shave my head and serve the kool-aid!

**cheles2kids** · 09-02-2010, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Ceashels

I had to tie Greebo to a chair and force him to watch Dave Ramsey 24 hrs straight. When his eyelids started to get heavy I used toothpicks to hold them open and poured caffeinated coffee down his gullet.

Hahahahahaha...sorry but this post cracked me up!!!!

**Ceashels** · 09-02-2010, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Russ

Next time you do anything like this just remember....

I didn't think Sarah and Gabe would want bondage pics posted....

**MTS04** · 09-02-2010, 03:17 PM

You guys are too funny. That scenario reminds me of an old tom and jerry cartoon.

**druthb00** · 09-02-2010, 03:23 PM

BF's way of "helping" with the budget...is simply abiding by it lol. And quite honestly...that's good enough for me

**Greebo** · 09-02-2010, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Ceashels

I didn't think Sarah and Gabe would want bondage pics posted....

So PM us if you want copies...

**Libby** · 09-02-2010, 03:29 PM

DF has his budget for his household, dad has one for this household and I have one that fits both. How would that fit into your 'poll' Russ?

**NikoSan999** · 09-02-2010, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Russ

If you care to share, tell us what it took to get your spouse on board.

You're kidding right? I do it...I tell him...he gives me a blank stare...finally he says ok...a month later he says we really need to do a budget...rinse and repeat.

When I say we can't do something it's like Why, we have the money...I say it's designated to ____.....he says that's ____ weeks from now....rinse and repeat with sometimes him getting huffy and me throwing cans of coffee.

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**nuisance26** · 09-02-2010, 03:42 PM

~My DH helps by following my budget. He puts his paycheck in the bank and never thinks about money again.
It wasn't always this way. We spent years arguing about how to share control of the finances and what were appropriate amounts to spend in certain categories(savings, entertainment and pocket money were the biggest problem areas). We both had goals that required a strict budget but I couldn't seem to convince him that a strict budget wasn't torturous deprivation. And I didn't want 100% of the responsibility for our finances.
I finally conceded that he preferred me to have complete control and he conceded that he didn't really need to spend 2X more on entertainment and PM than me.
After I was able to pay off his fancy new car(that I tried desperately to talk him out of buying) in just two years he was so impressed that I've never heard a peep of a complaint out of him since.
So that's what's working for us.~

**frugalfriend** · 09-02-2010, 03:50 PM

I'm the numbers nerd and dh is the free spirit, so I do the budget. He agrees with what I am doing. We have discussions about money all the time and how we'll save/spend it, etc. I just don't call them "budget meetings" because dh's eyes would glaze over, lol!