What's the biggest financial decision your spouse has made during your marriage without notice or consent?

[Anonymous]

Wife brought a Wrangler at the dealership while she was waiting for our Grand Cherokee to be serviced. I was at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wife brought a Wrangler at the dealership while she was waiting for our Grand Cherokee to be serviced. I was at work.

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Anonymous wrote:
Bet on last years Superbowl .. and won .. BIG

Didn't tell me until a few days later when he showed me ..

I almost collapsed.

Don't you worry he's hiding other gambling from you?

Nope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t think for my husband - he loves books and is a scientist and some of the books he gets are $300-$400 text books. He doesn’t do that often. I asked him recently about the threshold where he’d be annoyed if I just spent it - I think we decided out tolerance is about $700-1,000, but neither of spends much in that way. I needed a new wardrobe, went shopping for the first time in years, and dropped $1,200. When I told him he basically said, “yeah, clothes can be expensive, but you haven’t gotten new clothes in ages.” My friend and I got season tickets to the theater. My husband gave me permission and I mentioned it was expensive, but he said “that’s fine.” But when I mentioned the cost the other day he seemed surprised (a year after I paid for them.) He earns about $200k and I earn about $120k and also have money from stocks I inherited that - if I didn’t reinvest - would add another few hundred to our income each month.

You asked his permission ??
What’s wrong with you?

Who does this?

Please move to a red state with the other women who let me control them

Literally was wondering the same thing ..

[Anonymous]

DH worked internationally for years. Before kids he flew me all aver the world business class or first class.

We took our kids to Europe for first time and agreed we put them in business class on his last remaining miles and we fly economy.

He paid the 18k for us to all fly first class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The list of dumb shit he did is too long. Name it and he has done it. He also didn't work while we were together.
My tax refund was taken to cover his student loans from years ago the moment I put his name on tax form.
I ended up with $45k in credit card debt as he was using my cards. He would scream at me when I refused to give him the cards and squeeze me throat. Courts made him pay a lot of it back thankfully.
I divorced him and became financially free 10 years out as I'm very good with money.
He is still broke, missed every opportunity to make money in DC,because he has half a brain. I had to marry someone for papers or my minimum wage job was going to kill me.
Ex will benefit from this marriage as my son feels sorry for his butt and will support his father at some point with my and his own money.
Being broke is not about minimum wage (I made that for 25 years). It's about being stupid.

Thrilled this is all behind you.

[Anonymous]

Moved about 400k of some stock into a single stock. He only mentioned this to me casually. I was upset and we talked about and hopefully he never does something like without discussing with me first.

[Anonymous]

He booked a surprise trip for us, it was about $2500. Other than that we are both pretty frugal and both run things by each other.

Our "limit" on free spending is probably about $200? Anything over that we discuss usually. But again, we are not big spenders.

[Anonymous]

Spouse none. Me it depends. Usually just gifts for him like an iPad or computer. He doesn’t care at all.

[Anonymous]

Mine used our home as collateral on a business loan without telling me, despite me repeatedly telling him I wouldn't agree to it.