Quote: Making herself feel good by doing dumb things for otheres. She will spend our money to do this. This includes money that should go for the kids. BR,
I know the feeling, XW would run up credit when she mad, sad, etc. The ironic thing is she handled the checking account like scrooge, never over and bills paid. But could not control her credit cards. We did have problems on spending so C had us take an allowance each pay that could be spent any way we each wanted. Now I had her handle the checking as long as she used Quicken, she was to keep it up to date each week. Otherwise I was going to get 2 signature checks. I wanted to keep an eye on the checking so she did not create new credit cards.
On found money, like say 300, we would each take $50 to spend any way we wanted and the rest went to bonds. Bonds are magical, you can't cash them for 6 months, and some how there were never cashed. Go figure. When we split, we had 7K in bonds.
Fisrt action is to agree on a budget, and the allowance amount.
