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AIBU - Giving my husband pocket money

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Goggle4 · 01/09/2018 21:21

My DH has a well paid job and I am currently on maternity leave. We have decided that I won’t be going back to work until our DC starts school. I never really earnt a lot of money so financially it makes sense.

We do realise that we will have to cut back a bit and most of all my DH has mentioned this to me on several occasions. I have checked our bank account recently and he seems to spunk a lot of money on himself. If i was to give him ‘pocket money’ or at least a budget of what he can spend on say socialising etc each week/month would this be unreasonable?

I feel bad as I know how hard he works to provide for us and he deserves to go out or buy things he wants, but at the same time I am quite cautious with money and good at budgeting... until he goes and spends more than he should!

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serbska · 03/09/2018 18:48

Pocket money might be the wrong word, but working out together a ‘personal spending’ budget for each of you and transferring that to a mondo card each is a relatively typical thing to do.

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