DH makes the money and I spend it.

I do all the bill paying and shopping.

I transfer the exact same amount of money into his account every monday morning, thats his spending money for the week.

I try to keep DH in the loop but he always gets this glazed over look on his and I know he isn't paying attention.

We do make all major financial decisions together but I handle all the day to day stuff on my own.

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we figuire up the bills, groc, gas, allowance for kids, and then my allowance.He writes me a check. and the rest is his including overtime money.which if it's alot he may give me some extra.But you know us moms my allowance is mostly spent on the kids.

Both of us. We use our credit card for everything, except we write it in the checkbook like a debit card, so we both just make sure we have enough money if we need to buy something. However, I do most of the spending, I grocery shop, I clothes shop for me and the kids, I buy all gifts and I sign the kids up for activities. I tried a couple times to ask dh about something for the kids before I spent it and he kind of ignored me and then I got mad and he just said "I trust you", so know I don't ask. He pays all the bills, but I go through the credit card statement to make sure it is already written down. We also have our own extra money that he gets from one of his part time jobs and I get from babysitting and focus groups and stuff. I used to spend mine all the time, but I have been good at saving, but I think dh thinks I still spend a lot because a couple times this summer he has handed me a $100 bill and I just sock it away along with my money, so I have a nice chunk of change saved up.

ME...I handle all of the bill paying. When I met Dh he was so overdrawn on his checking and never balanced his checkbook. He was behind on bills too. I balanced his checkbook, and got him up to date on his bills and never let him touch the checkbook again or the debit card!! He forgets to enter anything, so its easier for me to handle it. We talk frequently about the bills and what we can and cannot afford. I am currectly updating the budget and believe we will be out of debt by the end of the year, except for our mortgage, car pymt and student loans. We have come a long way and its motivating to see the changes!

I do. I try involving him in it, He doesn't want to know...He says his job is to make the money, I figure out where it goes. I do everything online and don't think he would know where to begin if he had to do it.
I do keep him informed of where we are on the bills and such (ie, if our account is low before the next pay date I'll tell him to watch it, we only have X amount of $ left until the next pay check). But that's the extent of it for our everyday finances.

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Me. Matt gladly handed it all over to me when we got married. He hated doing the bills and having the stress; I love knowing exactly where we stand financially.

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Parker, Wyndser, and Carson....................Wyndser (in blue) with her cousin

This is us exactly too.

Thats us too. DH's check is directly deposited in our checking account once a month and I write the checks or pay bills online for everything. Everyday I check our bank statement online to see what DH used the debit card for the day before -- so much easier than him keeping track of receipts, then me keeping the receipts until I have time to log them into the checkbook. I do all of the shopping and don't ask DH what I can spend or not. I just know what we can afford and what we can't on a day to day basis. I do tend to get on him though when I see a $8.00 smoothie from Smoothie King or a $24.00 book from the bookstore. We are trying to save and sometimes he needs a gentle reminder that smoothies and books might seem minimal in a budget, but over a months time it really adds up.

I do everything myself, my dh is horrible with money. Give him $50 to spend and he would spend $500 and not realize the difference. I do the budgeting/buying/paying/shopping etc.

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I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. -Edward Hale

Wow, I hope you get a large chunk of the money and I hope you have a savings and retirement account in your name only that you contribute to. It's an issue of financial security that the mom (especially sahms) have there own savings as well as a family savings. You never know what can happen in todays world!

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I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. -Edward Hale