tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post116403784742285523..comments2024-03-24T03:19:18.249-04:00Comments on An English Major's Money: My Weekend Spending Has Run AmokEnglish Majorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00276582833751319518noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-1164239592097840762006-11-22T18:53:00.000-05:002006-11-22T18:53:00.000-05:00With my husband and I, for things like the U-O-me-...With my husband and I, for things like the U-O-me-I-O-U stuff, we just treat each other. More often, he treats me; see last para. <BR/><BR/>When we are eating a restaurant meal out with friends / family, he will pick up our share of the cheque (he gets airmiles on his cc) then I reimburse him according to our "Cookie Jar" formula. <BR/><BR/>All household expenditures (him or me) go into a cookie jar I have (don't know why; guess it's for this purpose!) and at the end of the month we do the tally. As he brings in 3/4 of our household's after-tax income, he pays 3/4 of our costs, while I pay the remaining 1/4. I usually end up writing him a cheque for ~$300.<BR/><BR/>As there is a big gap between our incomes, this seems to us to be the fairest way of breaking our shared costs down.<BR/><BR/>Meadow<BR/>Hons. English '95Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com