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poll: finances

who is in charge of them, u or h?[Poll]
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Re: poll: finances

  • We do it all together. There is one card that I can't look at for some reason and we are going to keep it that way until after christmas (so he can buy without me seeing it online).

     

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  • we do it together as well. I manage more of the day-to-day, and DH manages more of the long term expenses (investments, etc.). 
  • ss - it's split up right now just because that was easiest for how much $$ we each have.  I think when we have a more 'normal' money situation then we'll do it so that one of us does everything.
  • i do it all. h has no idea. he wouldn't even know where to start.
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    i do it all. h has no idea. he wouldn't even know where to start.

     

    I get phone calls all the time from DH going though the CC asking if we or I made the purchases... I told him today that I could never cheat on him, I would get caught within days =)  

     

    He did not think that was as funny as I did. 

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  • H is the budget man.. he loves math so I leave it up to him. Besides he makes the money not me, or what I make isn't worth trying to be the one in charge of the budget for.

    When it comes to time to pay the bills we do it together so that at least I have somewhat of an idea of what is coming/going. He has a spreadsheet, so that at least I can look at that and know exactly where all our money is going as well. 

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  • imagesarack:
    i do it all. h has no idea. he wouldn't even know where to start.

    This.  Although DH and I have separate accounts and he keeps a small amount of money each month to do with what he wants. 

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    imagesarack:
    i do it all. h has no idea. he wouldn't even know where to start.

     

    I get phone calls all the time from DH going though the CC asking if we or I made the purchases... I told him today that I could never cheat on him, I would get caught within days =)  

     

    He did not think that was as funny as I did. 

    lol. i think it's hilarious.

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  • We still have completely separate finances. He pays the mortgage, I pay everything else. I nag him about retirement.
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  • ss/joint.

    even though he "pays" for everything, we talk about all our bills, etc..so neither one of us is in "charge", but he does the general housekeeping of the accounts.

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  • Dh does the paying (comes out of our joint acct), but i do the checking (verifying charges are correct, etc.).
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  • Once we combined certain expenses when we moved in together, I started getting really lazy and let him kind of take over managing our joint account and bills. We each still have our own personal accounts that we're responsible for (checking/savings, I have several store cards, our two major CCs are technically personal but we treat them sort of jointly). I just never enjoyed doing it and he doesn't mind as much.
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  • I am in charge of paying every bill, because DH is pretty forgetful and I don't want to pay $0.01 in late fees. 

    He does help to make sure the bills balance out, since we have a joint account as well as two separate accounts and want to make sure neither one of us is paying out more from their separate than the other.

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