Friday, December 24, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Woohoo! I'm Charge!!.. Holy bejeebees I'm in charge...
Chris announced "That he was now ready to discuss the budget." My audience had been convened. A few deep breaths and a promise to myself not be accusatory or defensive I head to the specified meeting place; the living room couch; with all my freshly printed spreadsheets. I taped them to our wall and with his undivided attention I began my well thought out and carefully planned presentation.
I blurted out "You don't make enough money!"
Okay.. Plan B.
I backtracked.. "we spent $1,100 plus change over what we made in the last 6 months." He response "Yeah that explains why the mortgage wasn't paid."
This was going well.
I decided to get to the point. Men like that. I handed him the totals on all the different expenses and too make a long story short, I spent too much eating out and he spent too much on alcohol and cigarettes. I told him that I have created a budget that will limit our food budget to $100 a week, dining out to $25 a week and he gets $40 for cigs and $35 for cocktails. He tells me is going to quit both and save us money. I roll my eyes and and politely reply "Ok. BUT just in case you don't here is what you have. You go over you're DUN!"
I went onto explain how I figured all the bills and the daily living stuff. This entire process, that I worked on for days and worried about how to share and get cooperation, was over in 10 minutes! Chris says "Great! You are in charge of the money from this point forward."
Oh crap.. what have I done?
Next post.. I didn't budget for that!
I blurted out "You don't make enough money!"
Okay.. Plan B.
I backtracked.. "we spent $1,100 plus change over what we made in the last 6 months." He response "Yeah that explains why the mortgage wasn't paid."
This was going well.
I decided to get to the point. Men like that. I handed him the totals on all the different expenses and too make a long story short, I spent too much eating out and he spent too much on alcohol and cigarettes. I told him that I have created a budget that will limit our food budget to $100 a week, dining out to $25 a week and he gets $40 for cigs and $35 for cocktails. He tells me is going to quit both and save us money. I roll my eyes and and politely reply "Ok. BUT just in case you don't here is what you have. You go over you're DUN!"
I went onto explain how I figured all the bills and the daily living stuff. This entire process, that I worked on for days and worried about how to share and get cooperation, was over in 10 minutes! Chris says "Great! You are in charge of the money from this point forward."
Oh crap.. what have I done?
Next post.. I didn't budget for that!
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