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My Husband Wants to See the Checkbook

August 10th, 2014 at 08:35 pm

And I'm not worried that he does. He just usually never cares! He said he was thinking about his promotion salary increase (that we are still waiting on orders for) and then thinking he doesn't know where our money goes except for what he personally spends. Generally he just buys pop, water and gas for his own needs. He will go to the store to get things if I ask. Other than that he really only knows little pieces of financial information based on what comes up in conversation.

I also told him the checkbook won't tell him a lot since, most of the transactions are on credit cards and only large payments show up in the checking account.

We didn't make a plan to discuss, yet. But I'm sure we will. I'm also not worried. I'm actually hopeful that this will simply make him more aware of our overall spending. Maybe he will have some great insight or idea that I hadn't thought of. And he really should know what is going on with his paycheck. I ended up handling things because he trusted me. I was the one that got him out from under that failed business debt less than a year after we were married.

Is your spouse a little out of touch with your finances? If not, how to you handle your finances together?

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3 Responses to “My Husband Wants to See the Checkbook”

  1. snafu Says:
    August 11th, 2014 at 12:52 am 1407718354
    1407718354

    I'm downright envious that your DH is interested in how the money is managed. My guy's eyes glaze over and he barely tolerates my end of month attempt at explaining where the money went. He will glance at the Net Worth Statement print-out final figure and smile if it's higher than the month before. If it was lower it just elicits an 'oh.'

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    August 11th, 2014 at 01:02 am 1407718931
    1407718931

    snafu, don't be too jealous. He only said he's interested at this point. I usually get a similar interest that you do. It would be nice to be a little more in sync with how the money gets spent and saved. I don't want to scare him off with crazy charts and graphs!! Smile

  3. My English Castle Says:
    August 11th, 2014 at 02:33 am 1407724384
    1407724384

    I think snafu and I have cloned husbands. Maybe we could paste the retirement planning info into another of his books hoping he'd read it there.

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