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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious: How are your ASD husbands with money and household finances?[/quote]
Not much. He does hide things like late bills, late bonuses, and our tax guy hates working with him. Like pulling teeth to get info.

Mine doesn’t spend much, unless on early adopter Apple and tech products- his other exception besides working in a narrow industry.

He’s not in to investing. If asked he’ll pull an article on google news and recite that.

He hates details or looking in to things and loathes talking with others - for references or referrals or to define a scope of a house project (ie paint job, new flooring, repair a sink leak). He panics, says he needs to work and takes the first guy to call and whatever that guy first says to do and charge. Yes yes yes, bye!

We no longer let him handle repairs or repairmen or large projects. His lack of knowledge, the poor communication, and the poor executive functioning would result in total disasters.  Lack of common sense basically. Getting ripped off, getting upsold on unnecessary pool equipment, buying an appliance too large to fit in the kitchen or laundry room because he “forgot” to measure, forgetting to book flights or hotels he said he would and then we have to overpay at the last minute. And so on.

Even grocery shopping results in things off list and forgotten things. Just too busy or lazy or out of it to care. And he can rarely make the list besides his own half and half. Me me me. Never what is the family doing this week and what do we need.

Everything he does needs to be checked. 
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