Married People: How often do you talk about money?

Question

On average, how many hours do you think you talk to your spouse about money? When you talk about money, are you arguing, planning for the future, etc.?

Answer 1

We talk as it occurs. Its extremely important to communicate. Also we both have a household checking account. When I use it I communicate to my partner, cause he/she can check off the money being spent visa versa too. It's never been an issue in our house to argue over money. Purchases that are big and done for the house , are being taken care of by both of us. We also have a saving account that we both put money into. So we will be able to purchase what we want .

Answer 2

Maybe a half hour every day at the most. We discuss what bills need to be paid and if they are any major purchases that we need to make in the future that we need to save for. Neither of us like to carry high balances on credit cards, and we only own two credit cards between the the two of us - one credit card for unexpected emergencies, and on credit card for our business. We have a joint checking account, a savings account, and a business checking account for the business that we own. We rarely argue about money, as we both have the same basic ideas on how to manage money, and we both have the same goals that we are working and saving toward for the future.

Answer 3

We used to talk about it all the time, not really argue, but definately debate. Now, we have our money separated into his money, my money, and our money, which is just for bills and household expenses. Once a week, at payday, I give him a quick heads-up of our financial standings. We both know how much the other gets for "personal spending or savings" and since it doesn't affect the household stuff, we can refrain from nagging or seeming too nosy about the pennies each other spends.

Answer 4

Every day. Probably for a total of an hour a day or so. We do argue, but we plan alot too. Usually if we argue it's because one of us wants to blow money on something totally unnecessary, which we do far too much.

Answer 5

Every month-end my spouse and I review our income and expenses for the previous month, and our net worth at the previous month-end, focusing on anything that is out of the ordinary and comparing our net worth to 1 year ago and 5 years ago. It takes maybe 30 minutes to do.

When we have non-routine financial decisions to make (large purchases, changes in income, unexpected expenses, windfall income) we might take 1 to 2 hours to discuss how to deal with it. This happens maybe 3 times per year.

Answer 6

EVERYDAY!.. We try not to argue, but disagree alot. I'm more the one who thinks about saving money by investing etc... My Hubby is "old-fashioned" he still thinks putting the money under the mattress is good enough!...

Hey I married an Italian what can I do!

Answer 7

We talk about planning for the future, current expenses. Never argue about it, as I married someone with the same ideals I have about how to correclty manage money.

Answer 8

My husband and I don't talk about money very often. We chose for me to be a stay-at-home mom so we live off his pay check. I trust him completely with the money and the bills. I get an allowance each week to spend on whatever I wish. We do talk about money when it comes time to making long term goals.... paying off the house, planning for our kids college, buying a car.

Answer 9

Money conversations take up almost all our waking hours. We have to live paycheck to paycheck and it is hard to pay bills and be able to try and maintain a modest lifestyle. We have recently opened a small flea market business in order to bring in a little extra money.

Answer 10

We talk about money generally everyday. Mostly on Thursday (payday). I wouldn't say we argue over money - because there's usually nothing to argue about (ha-ha) because we're socking everything away for the future; i.e.: children's college, our future dream cabin, etc.