Family Finances

My husband and I are trying to figure out what is a more common financial situation for families-- do the men or women dominanatly take care of the finances?? What is it like in your family? Do you or your man take care of the bills??? Thanks  

before when my husband had a good job,... he only paid for the truck payment and insurance.. hethen gave me the restof the money.. to paymore bills rent.. food... diapers... and whatever eles we needed.

My husband pays the bills online and I do the grocery/family shopping.

Hubby and I have a joint account but I am the one who decides where and what all the money will be spent on. He doesn't care about money and never wants material things so prefers me to deal with all the money.

My friend is the opposite, herfiance and her both have seperate accounts and he gives her $100 a week for her and theirson and then he uses all the rest of the money on what he sees fit.

well ima stay at home mom so he brings home al lthe cash...but i do the bills, and figure out where else our money needs to go (i.e. clothes, diapers, food, gas)

Quoting TTC for far too long:“ Hubby and I have a joint account but I am the one who decides where and what all the money will be spent ... [snip!] ... accounts and he gives her $100 a week for her and theirson and then he uses all the rest of the money on what he sees fit.”

imo about your friend..thats kinda crazy...

Quoting -*-Kerriellah's Momma-*-:“ imo about your friend..thats kinda crazy...”

i tried to write
not psycho crazy but like wried kinda crzy lol
my copm wnet all crazy and it sent that msg without me tellign it too lol

Quoting -*-Kerriellah's Momma-*-:“ imo about your friend..thats kinda crazy...”

I agree but she is independant and hates taking any money from him, even though see doesn't work because she is staying home with their son.

I think that as long as it is not stressfull for you and if finances is something you do often and do well then you should do the bills to make sure that things get taken care of. What I have learned is this that men don't really know how to finance and they would have to be an engineer to figure it out. Woman think of the future a lot more then men do, so see if it's ok with him to take control. If this is something you don't and can't do then let him. If he can't do it either then ask your parents. My Mom is always a good person to talk to and get information.

my husband completely takes care of the money situation. my name is not even on our bank account. i don't have a clue about the money for the most part. he says he doesn't want to stress me out about it when the money is low. he is great at budgeting money and likes doing those kinds of things, he wants to be an accountant eventually lol. but i don't mind letting him take care of the money. i am the kind of person that if he gives me $5 i already have it spent 50 ways in my head. he gives me a tiny amount of money each week that i can spend on myself as i see fit. and if i need more money i just ask but i try not to. 
when i am working (its summer and i'm a sub teacher so there aren't any jobs right now) my husband lets me keep all of my money to myself which is great!

Beforem, he brought home the money, I managed the finances because he says I'm wonderful at it. We do sit down, and go over it togather to see where we stand. Money hasbeen tight since INS can suck it all out of you. If he's granted a visa, then he will work, and I will work too. If he doesn't then I'll be alone with everything.

Fiance makes the money, I handle everything else with it: bills, shopping, etc.

Quoting -*-Kerriellah's Momma-*-:“ well ima stay at home mom so he brings home al lthe cash...but i do the bills, and figure out where else our money needs to go (i.e. clothes, diapers, food, gas)”

This is how we do ours in our home too. Works out best for us since hubby sucks at it... (his mom used to do his checkbook for him before we got married)

I am a stay at home mom..my husband works 2 weeks outta state then is off work and at home for 2 weeks.. i do all the finances.. when we got married we agreed i would stay home and do the finances,cooking,cleaning,tending to the kids(he does spend lots of time with our son but i do all the bathing,putting to bed diapers..all the unfun stuff haha),shopping, running errans..ect His job is to make the money and do all the yard work.. but when he started this new job were he is home 2 weeks at a time..we started shopping together and running errans together and he puts our son to sleep every night..and has started changing diapers!!! haha but i still control the finances just because i can budget better and plan better.

Hubby just makes the money but I manage it.. We also see a financial advisor to help us chart and allot our investments