My Wife is Spending Too Much
It all started very well. It was an episode of Sex in the City. Boy meets beautiful girl, and girl says yes. Unfortunately that was the end of the story.
When I was just from college my spending habits were very simple. I would work the whole week and get a pay check on Friday. In the evening I would get the common phone call.
“What’s up dude? There’s a new spot …..” You know the rest.
Somehow, I always forgot to leave my paycheck at home. I would really see the town and whatever was left I would go buy the usual men toys and clothes. Of course I could not afford it but I owned the world then.
Soon after meeting my beauty, nothing much changed. Now I had a partner to really spend things on. We got married on credit. We bought our house on credit and even furnished it on credit cards. We had no kids so we could “afford” our spending.
The fact that we were paying 18% per year on credit cards bills and only paid the minimum balance, did not seem to worry us in the least. That is until we could no longer seem to find the extra money we always had.
We then started to learn that finances between spouses can actually bring wars. I wanted to continue playing golf on the weekend with my buddies. She just had to get the new fashion house bag. How could she spend money on her hair when I had not got the new plasma TV yet?
Then we had a kid and our world came crashing down in a hurry.
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