She Forced Her Husband To Pay For A $675 Mistake He Made Using His Allowance Money Instead of Money From Their Joint Bank Account
This woman and her husband have an “allowance system,” and it’s something they use in order to prevent disagreements about how they want to spend their money.
She and her husband have a joint bank account, and each of their salaries go directly into that. From there, they pay all of their bills, make investments, and use the rest of the money to purchase things that they both agree upon.
As for their allowance money, they both get between $50 to $100 a week, and it’s always split equally between them.
This allowance money gets moved into their separate bank accounts, and they can spend their allowance money however they deem fit.
They don’t ask the other person for permission, and they normally spend their allowance money on splurges or their hobbies.
This system might seem interesting, but it works out wonderfully for them. Now, over the weekend, she was looking at her husband’s credit card bill in order to make arrangements for travel when she noticed a $73 charge for YouTube.
She asked her husband about the charge, and he really didn’t remember purchasing things, so she kept investigating.
“Turns out he had subscribed to YouTube TV last December to watch a football game on a road trip and forgot about it,” she explained.
“I had no idea because this was his YouTube account, his email notifications, his credit card. The total charges added up to about $675. I admit I was annoyed and made some short comments. “You should always set a reminder to cancel these things.” “If you were responsible about checking your emails, this might not have happened.” There is a history of him being irresponsible with bills and missing important emails.”
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“I manage almost all the finances. We’re in good shape, but I hate the idea of waste. We weren’t even utilizing that expensive subscription, he paid that money to watch one thing ten months ago.”
She then informed her husband that he had to pay the $675 charges using his allowance money. He had a ton of money saved up in that account since she knew he was saving up to buy something special for himself related to his hobby.
She ended up moving money out of his allowance and into their joint bank account to cover the $675. She knows that it probably would have been better in hindsight to have requested that her husband move the money around on his own instead of doing it for him, but she was really upset about it and just took matters into her own hands.
After she finished moving the money around, she calmed down, as she knew the problem had been taken care of.
“He got irritated and said he shouldn’t have to pay out of his allowance for a simple mistake,” she said.
“I said, “Everyone has to pay for their mistakes. That’s how life works.” Maybe I was harsh. But the wasted money was all on him. I don’t see any better way to resolve it. He pointed out that we are doing fine financially, we are fortunate that $675 out of the joint account won’t affect our budgeting for the month, but it will make a big difference to his saving for his hobbies as it is close to 2 months’ “allowance.”
“It was the principle of the matter to me. I’m very careful with money. No matter how well we do financially, I’ll always look for good deals and avoid profligate spending.”
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