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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious who handles all the bills and finances of the household?  In most I know it’s the dads, is that typical?[/quote]

Wife here. I do all of that. My DH would forget (ADD!) so I've always done it. I even did it while we were dating. I managed all of his student loans, consolidated them, manage his 401k, did his taxes. Now that we're married I do it all plus all of our investments. He came from a lower class background and doesn't understand saving or investing. His only financial strategy was to pay off the mortgage. He doesn't even know what our salary is, mortgage balance, savings balance, anything. He trusts me though (I'm very frugal) and I enjoy doing it. I have a file of what accounts we have just in case something happened to me and he needed to find it all.

My dad did all of this growing up and I'm not sure who does it in my inlaws' house. Managing it all is important to me and we'd have a fight if DH wanted to do it. He can look in the accounts all he wants, but I'm managing it all and paying bills on time. [/quote]

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