the only way me and my husband made it work was less petrol and a personal spend budget all his money and mine goes in a joint account. Been doing it about 3 years now.
Enabled us to save to get house/ married and now a baby ... he earns more but not great at saving ... I earn less but helped
Him get out of debt and paid more into
Things for him ... we realised that to
Get to our goals that are joint we worked better as a team rather than two
Separate entities ... I am lucky though not
All guys that earn more than their partner would be as generous... but it works before that we spent 8 years together getting no
Where fast financially
It sounds like you have already wised up
To 2nd hand, but just encase you haven’t heard of it ... nearly new sales are amazing ( there is a website called nearly new sales you put your post code in and you can see when next one is on ... costs about £1 to go in but great bargains:-
I have 6-9 months shorts, 2 x long sleeved tops 6-9 months , then 9-12 months 3 x baby grow , 2 x jumper , 1 x hoodie and 1 x Halloween bundle , Debenhams swim suit age 6-12 months never been used the 12-18 months 3 x baby grow , 3 x long sleeved top , 1 x jumper , 18-24 months Thomas swimsuit , hoodie and 3 x body suits. The booster, vetch walker and fisher price cookie shape sorter for my £37.50 or £41.40
Literally walked in with a list of options didn’t get everything but did well overal
Also got 2 bags of toys off a Facebook
Sale site for £10 ... it would have cost easily £80 new ... VTech/ fisher price bits and all
Pretty good condition as they grow
Out of things so quickly at an early
Age x x