+1 to Formo for having the balls to say that. And I agree.

Funny, had a similar experience to Non. My wife is horrible with finances so I became a finance Nazi and completely took over both mine and her paychecks. I give her an allowance with her own money and also allow her to buy investments. She's actually quite good at mutual funds and stocks, but give her credit cards and you'd have a serious problem.

I don't believe in equality one bit. Equality is one of those stupid politically correct words. You do what you're good at. My wife is way better than me at a lot of things and I'm better at her with finances and cooking. So I do the cooking and the finances and she pretty much does everything else.

I strongly believe in roles. You play to your strengths. You have each the person do what they're good at. If your spouse is good at nothing, you picked a bad spouse.

Now before anyone calls me sexist when it comes to finances, I have a female friend who should have been the finances Nazi. Her stupid husband blew $1.2 million gambling with tech stocks and now it's worth $200k and they're nearing retirement. $200k in San Francisco for retirement doesn't go very far, especially considering that during the dot com, they were making more than that every year.

He convinced her that he knew what was up and she allowed him to take her retirement fund as well as his own. It should have been the other way around with her managing both their finances and her giving him an allowance because he's a financial retard.

"zombieslayer" wrote:

Formo - Me too. My wife and I bought our wedding rings at K-Mart for $20 for both of them. Both of ours snapped years ago and we since upgraded our wedding rings to $20 rings (each) at some teenager rock and roll store at the mall, forgot what it's called.

"zombieslayer" wrote:

I've never understood a lot of things, like 2400 sq ft houses on a lot the size of a postage stamp. Very popular here in California, and nowadays, you see a lot of those homes foreclosing.

Here, it's all about keeping up with the Jones'es. I don't get it. You see it in the clothes, in the vehicles, the wedding rings, etc. Then they whine that they can't make their payments. Wonder why.

I like money, don't get me wrong. I like it though so I could get some time off and go somewhere with it, not to buy crap we don't need.

I think the happiest people are the ones who understand that time and health are the most important things you got, and a good family is one that does stuff together.

"zombieslayer" wrote:

Good luck with wrestling control for the finances. Everyone's afraid of the word "roles" nowadays as we've been brainwashed with the equality word. I hope you can convince her that you'd be better off if you controlled the finances.

"zombieslayer" wrote: