Stay at Home Wives/Mothers and Spending Money

[TLK]

Re: Stay at Home Wives/Mothers and Spending Money

@Afshi

To the Stay at Home Wives and Mothers without a regular income of their own, how do you purchase the following items? Would you ask your working husband for the money? Use your own birthday/Eidi money? Use your child’s birthday/Eidi Money?

Or do you get a weekly allowance?

Expenses:

1. Your own personal expenses - Clothes, Shoes, Accessories, Lunch/Dinner with friends
2. Your child’s clothes, shoes, school supplies
3. Grocery
4. Home Decor
5. Gifts - family member birthdays, wedding gifts, etc.
6. other expenses

whenever one of us has to make a large nonrecurring expense, we check with each other. We both are joint owners of all our accounts, and are adults, so there is no “asking for permission” happens in our household.