How Much Allowance do you Give Your SAH?

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Anonymous wrote:Haha. I'm a SAHM. If anyone "asks" for money, it's my DH. He couldn't tell you how much we have in our checking account. (He does know savings, retirement, etc) He simply does not care. I pay the bills and manage finances. He earns the money. I decide how it's spent. Of course we discuss big purchases like homes and cars. But he could not possibly care any less about the day-to-day spending.

It's the same for literally every SAHM I know.

+2, exactly

+3 - My DH knows exactly what we have in all of our financial accounts but he has no idea of what it costs to run our household. I don't know if he ever looks at the household checking account or credit card statements. He knows that I don't like to waste money so he doesn't worry about it. He's happy that things run smoothly and that he can stay focused on making money which he does quite nicely.

+4. DH knows about the investments and other finances and we talk about it but he leaves it to me to manage it and decide where the money should go.

I love DH but it would not be that difficult for me to secretly stash away money over the years

+5

I've gone back to work but still pay all the bills, manage retirement accounts, do our taxes, etc,, as I did when I was a SAHM for 10 years. Dh has no freaking clue about money and if I left our spending up to him he would burn through it on a bunch of crap.

I wish he was more interested, I've tried to teach him about money management but he's really just good at making the money and I'm good at managing it.

[Anonymous]

I have a bunch of friends who are SAH. I don't think any of them are "given an allowance". The family may be on a budget but it's something they have come up with together to meet their joint financial goals. Is that what you mean?