Comments on Saving to Inve$t: Who does the finances in your household?

My wife doesn't touch our finances. She has no int...

2008-08-21T17:17:00.000-04:00

My wife doesn't touch our finances. She has no interest in it at all. And I assume that she trusts me.

Wooley Woman - your husband sounds like my wife, t...

2008-05-07T23:10:00.000-04:00

Wooley Woman - your husband sounds like my wife, though she doesn't come to the bank with me unless she has to sign something. Still she trusts me to handle the finances and occasionally has investment ideas for me (like Visa Stock recently). As long as I put money in our 401K and investments, she gets an "allowance" (as do I) every month to spend how she wants.

I do the finances in our house, and like Rachel I ...

2008-05-07T13:28:00.000-04:00

I do the finances in our house, and like Rachel I think my husband doesn't know where all the money is. He does come to the bank with me though when we make big financial decisions and I discuss the finances with him often. What hasn't worked for us is when he wants to buy something and I say we don't have enough money - he doesn't like that so we are working to get him to understand where all the money goes each month. On the plus side he celebrates with me every time we meet a milestone paying off one of our debts :)

Thanks for your comment Roman. Getting your budget...

2008-05-01T18:42:00.000-04:00

Thanks for your comment Roman. Getting your budget under control gives you a good basis for becoming a succesful investor. Picking the right investments is hard but is really the only way to financal fredoom in the long term.
thanks for stopping by. Andy

I do my finances but thats because there is no one...

2008-05-01T13:23:00.000-04:00

I do my finances but thats because there is no one else to do them and its a topic that i know a bit about. Its really not that bad to do the worst thing is to figure out where to invest in and how to do it.

@ Curt - Looks like we are in the same boat. My wi...

2008-04-30T18:59:00.000-04:00

@ Curt - Looks like we are in the same boat. My wife is alway saying how can I blog about pf and investing topics - "who would be interested" she says. When I show her the number of people who blog about this topic she is always surprised.

I enjoy reading your blog regularly as well.

@ Rachel - Excellent. I am going to show this comment to my wife. I like your comment about trust, so I guess my wife not wanting to do finances is that she "trusts" me. I like that and never thought about it like that. Thanks. Still I do make it a point to inform her about any major decisions, investment or expenses I am plannng to make.

Nice to discover your blog and look forward to checking it out in detail soon.

Thanks to both of you for stopping buy and leaving a comment.

I do the finances in our household. I sort out the...

2008-04-30T13:20:00.000-04:00

I do the finances in our household. I sort out the bills, bank accounts, investments and savings. My husband does not even know where some of our money is. I am very open about what I am doing and discussing it with him as I feel he needs to know. The fact that he trusts me and doesn't ask any questions make me feel great!

I also handle the finances for my family, but I ag...

2008-04-30T11:49:00.000-04:00

I also handle the finances for my family, but I agree that it's very important to keep my wife in the loop. At times she is bored, but I tell her everything anyway.