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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you upset because you think your DH is being wasteful with resources and teaching your DC to be the same? Or are you upset because your DH's spending is causing your family financial ruin? If the latter, that's easy, just cut him off (there shouldn't even be an argument about it). If the former, I don't think you get to patrol how he spends his money. Maybe buy him some gym equipment for the house and convince him to cut off his fancy gym membership. That's the only expense I see that would add up. The other expenses don't seem like that big of a deal --- your DH seems to be healthy - [b]maybe ordering the meal with a big drink is the cheaper option[/b] and throwing out a big drink means he is not consuming the calories.[/quote]

Obviously that’s not what I’m talking about. Dh just has no concept of not wasting things. He has always been like this. Order the large latte every single day and have 4 sips and toss it. Order an extra app at dinner on top of his entree and app because he wants to ‘try it’, leaving much of his food untouched. Order room service at a hotel because he’s ’tired and we’re on vacation, let’s treat ourselves!’ Toss out perfectly good clothing items because he’s ’sick of them’ and then replace them with similar new items. His wastefulness has always bothered me, but I let it go because we had his salary. Now we don’t. [/quote]

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