SAHM do you get a weekly allowance?

Daisy77

Hell no. 

I buy what we need and DH doesn't say a word.  He's just happy he's not doing the grocery shopping and that we have food in the house.  I pay all the bills with OUR money.  There is no his money vs. my money in this house.

We discuss bigger purchases before they happen, but that's it.  

Judah'sMommy

The budget that we do includes ALL incidentals (personal grooming i.e. haircuts, mani/pedis; clothes allowances; entertainment expenses).  So the mad money that we both get every month doesn't need to be very much.  It isn't an allowance that he *gives* me, it is what we've worked out that we both get every month.  Everything is split 50/50 in this house.

luv_my_boy

No, but I am very conscious about what I buy.  I am a proud coupon clipper and am always on the hunt for a bargain!

 murphy---LOVE your siggy!  Hoping for a win @ BC this weekend.  Did you graduate from FSU?  I did in '01.

alheystek

I do have a grocery budget - not a grocery allowance. With our credit card debt and the medical bills we still haven't paid off, we don't have a lot of room to play.

BetchySprout

luv_my_boy:

No, but I am very conscious about what I buy.  I am a proud coupon clipper and am always on the hunt for a bargain!

 murphy---LOVE your siggy!  Hoping for a win @ BC this weekend.  Did you graduate from FSU?  I did in '01.

 

Just a late (late!) aside...FSU '02 here!

So disappointing this weekend....

luv_my_boy

Pattypoundcake:

luv_my_boy:

No, but I am very conscious about what I buy.  I am a proud coupon clipper and am always on the hunt for a bargain!

 murphy---LOVE your siggy!  Hoping for a win @ BC this weekend.  Did you graduate from FSU?  I did in '01.

 

Just a late (late!) aside...FSU '02 here!

So disappointing this weekend....

 

Yea!  Another Nole!  Yep, it was a sad one this weekend, but hopefully we'll have a win this weekend.  I'm surrounded by Gators and they love to rub it in!  I always remind them that when I was at FSU, we won the National Championship!!!

BetchySprout

luv_my_boy:

Pattypoundcake:

luv_my_boy:

No, but I am very conscious about what I buy.  I am a proud coupon clipper and am always on the hunt for a bargain!

 murphy---LOVE your siggy!  Hoping for a win @ BC this weekend.  Did you graduate from FSU?  I did in '01.

 

Just a late (late!) aside...FSU '02 here!

So disappointing this weekend....

 

Yea!  Another Nole!  Yep, it was a sad one this weekend, but hopefully we'll have a win this weekend.  I'm surrounded by Gators and they love to rub it in!  I always remind them that when I was at FSU, we won the National Championship!!!

 

Exactly!! That was my first year there, and I was in Chiefs so I actually got to be there...it was AMAZING! (Also amazing what has since happened to the Superdome and Michael Vick...but that is a different story!)

zoe_cat

TMs1stBaby:

I think the wording allowance is probably just making people cringe.  If the question was do you have a weekly budget, you probably would get better responses. 

This.  Budget?  Yes.  Allowance?  No.  I find the idea of an allowance insulting.

dewdrop1210

No.

jillybean222

I do!  I love allowance day!  Of course, it is not set in stone...if I need more, I just ask or go to the ATM.  It works for us...1950-ish or not! 

southernarmywife7

UM NO! One of us always goes to the grocery store and buys whatever we need/want. We discuss big purchases before we buy something! I think i would have to pick my jaw up off the floor if my hubby ever "gave me an allowance!"

ibfloridagirl

yes, for several reasons - 1) admittedly i can and do justify spending every last cent i get my hands on and would put us in the poor house and 2) my DH manages our finances including our bank account, i have a seperate bank account that we put $ into every week for whatever i need/want, that way there isn't a chance that i spend $ at the store (even an insignificant amount) and put our account in the negative.  I don't like it all the time but honestly that's because i have a spending problem.