Stay at Home Wives/Mothers and Spending Money

[Paheli00]

Re: Stay at Home Wives/Mothers and Spending Money

@Afshi

**Paheli - my point wasn’t getting “permission”, but simply asking (maybe I should have used the term telling) the husband that she needs money.

**I’ve seen Mums who would use their children’s gift money on items for their children. Would you moms save this money for their own future use, or spend it as well on their needs and wants?

My apologies…perhaps it wasn’t the best choice of words. But just to clarify…my mom does not ask my dad before she spends money on groceries or other random household expenses. But by giving him the receipts, she always makes him aware of where the money is going.

My parents NEVER used our gift money to purchase anything for us (ie. any of our “needs”). My dad had separate bank accounts for us evern since we were babies and put all gift money in our name separately. And we were always told that since that’s money given to US…we could spend it any way we like (ie. if we wanted to buy something on our own and parents didn’t want to pay for it, we were free to spend our gift money on it). But my parents never used our gift money for any of our “needs” (ie. food, clothing etc.).