Who will handle the money?

in our case we both work together so we just do the give and take process..he gives me half of his salary..we don't need to think much of bills..we just pay electricity and thats all..as per my salary i give it away to my family as a support for their apartment and other bills..we never talked about any arrangements on this..it just happened..if i need a lil more money that what i should have i tell him so we can try to settle it..

I think it all depends on the agreement of the couple. Who is good at budgeting? Who is the income generator? For some, the couple have a shared account of money while still keeping a percentage of their income for themselves. I think it all depends on the couple's agreements.

My wife handles all the money we make together-it puts her incharge and since she is very frugal, I guess I put my income to the best use-otherwise am this kind of generous person who would give away all our family income to the many people coming about saying they are about to die of hunger with all their kids in their houses-I cant just keep money in my pocket when people are dying off!

I am better at handling money than my husband is. He is the higher inome earner, but I do most of the money handling. We make decisions together, bu I am less impulsive than he is.

hi there! i am very much single but for me i guess once you get married you should talk about these things like who will be responsible for budgeting the money.,but it would be nice if the girl would do since i know that more of man are working than woman.,and it would be fair enough to give that responsiblity to your wife.,i just hope she could handle things like the budgeting thing.,Ü and not to spend it into something that is not really important! lol! have a nice day ahead! see you around!

hello robert, that is nice that you trust your wife to do all the money matters for your family. to answer your question. my hubby and i have the same account and we both do the budgeting. have access to both cards that we have and we talk to each other before we purchased something big. he tends to buy a lot of stuff for me and i tend to like a lot of stuff but we make sure that if we spend something more than what he is earning (i dont work) then we are in big trouble. we dont spend much other than food as he thinks it is best to enjoy our meal specially if we are out. we try to go for a vacation and enjoy it for that time being and after that we will not spend much for the next few months. our bills are automatically payed so we dont have to worry not paying it on time so that is a great thing. we both watched our savings and if we see it going down then we know we are spending more. i have been calculating everything that we spend. i have a spread sheet with me and i break it down to different things that our money goes. that way we can see where we spend the money the most and we can cut down the next time. i do allow him to have extra money on his own so he can buy something that he dont have to give me his receipt as he thinks that it is no longer sweet if i know how much money he spend for that gift LOL we really need to save from this month and on coz we did spend a lot on our last vacation so we watched out everything that we spend, less dining out and buying extra stuff that we dont need really. anyway, to sum it up. the money is handle by both with care coz we both know that we have to be responsible to whatever we do. any mistakes will not be felt by one only but by whole. have a good one!

I handle the money in our relationship-paying the bills, analyzing retirement etc. My husband has a weekly allowance and extra for gas. We usually discuss it once or twice month budget wise and don't make big purchaes unless we to to the other about it.

Hello Robert. I am a family man as well and my wife is very good at handling the money. When we need to buy something expensive, we usually ask each other's opinion about it. I love it when my wife is good at handling the budget per month. I appreciate her for her nice work.

When I get married, I'll let my wife handle the finances. I'm not that good in budgeting yet. I almost always end up with less money for savings. Sometimes, I do end up having more as well, which I'd hope to be always. My fiancee is really good at budgeting, all top priority expenses are taken cared of even with a small budget. And she even has enough savings and a few extra for things and services which are on the category of "wants". If I'd take care of it, the budget will not go far.

well i guess it varies between couples , sometimes the guy take over the handle of the money and sometimes its vice versa ... thats what i think !!!

Sometimes, its really a great job for a women handling and budgetting financial matter at home. We cannot deny the fact that majority of the family particularly Filipinos who belong to middle class was run and budgetted financialy by the wife and the Manager or the Financial supplier is the husband. Women can really budget successfully compared to men because they are not only price concious but quality concious too. In the grocery or supermarket or even shopping mall, women can pick up immediately what they need and wants because they knew already what they should get while men is having a long time choosing because they have'nt figure out yet what they need and really wants. Hehe,, that's one great differences which makes men and women became a succesful union or partner.

Hello there! I know what you mean because we live in the same territory. It has been in our culture to let women or wives handle finances at home an in fact, that's how I learned things at home when I was growing up...But you know sometimes, men are so independent that few of them want to be self-sufficient in many ways..there are few out there who are not YET used to the idea of being dependent to women's intuition on budgeting. I don't know what could have been the reasons behind but well, your wife is just very lucky! Happy posting!

I'm married and I handle most of the finances and bills. My husband is a Marine in the military so he's really busy. I do know a couple of married men that don't trust their wives with money or the handling of the money. I also know a couple of wives that I know I wouldn't trust either. This is something that couples usually figure out while dating. My husband and I didn't really discuss it, we just knew. He always let his accounts overdraw and never knew what his available balance was. It just made sense. I don't think it has anything to do with being a man or a woman. Good post!

I'm not married yet, but I have a long-term boyfriend who is terrible with money, so whenever he gets paid, he keeps some of it for himself and gives me the rest to save or pay bills with. I don't determine how much he keeps or gives to me though, so I don't think it is really an allowance like what you say you do. When we get married, we will probably do basically the same thing we're doing now. I think that it is a good system. Girls are not always better with money though, but I think on average we are.

I earn and give the right of spending to my wife.I have found by experience the money management by her is better than mine.

Well my brother in law give his whole pay packet to my sister-in-law. She handles everything. My brother in only gets a monthly budget for his transport and lunch. Any extras, he earns it doing partime. He gets to keep those that he earns from his partime pay. I think that if your wife is not working and you pay is not huge, then getting a partime job to earn extra income is the way to go since it also keeps you more focus. Less time to think of spending money on this and that.

im the kind of guy who is very careful about my spending. thats a nice way of saying im a cheapskate lol so it would definately be me. besides im already managing my family's finances anyway

In my 10 years of being married. I am the one who is handling the money. My husband will just give me our monthly budget. And I am the one who do the budgeting.

I think your arrangement is pretty good - my sister and her husband do that too, as she's better in handling the budget. For me, my hubby is better at finance (more organised), and he will pay all the bills & expenses, and does all the budgetting.

my wife is handling our money too, but i am the boss, she is just a accountant.