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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Put her on budget".  Seriously? OP's wife  is not a child and should not be treated like a child. That is a recipe for disaster in any marriage. Working out a budget together is one thing but putting her on a budget is completely out of line.[/quote]

I put DH on a budget - we have to or we cannot buy food.  It's that simple - we HAVE to be on a budget.  And he understands that because I do the finances and pay the bills, I am the one who knows how much we should be spending.  So I don't find this sexist or out of line - it's just some people's reality.[/quote]

If you are the same poster as before -- your mortgage payment is about half your take home. That leaves you scrambling to pay for toilet paper. You want to "put DW on a budget" or "get her to go back to work" but have you calculated the cost of daycare? Or the unseen cost of latch key? You are not a poor person --you are a vain, middle class person who overspent on the car and house. Also, some of these posters must not live here in DC area, or they don't care about the qaulity of the food they eat. Poor people eat Doritos and McDonalds. It can be done for mere dollars.[/quote]

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