can't believe he did this!!

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Registered: 08-13-2004
can't believe he did this!!
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Sat, 12-11-2004 - 11:54am

I am trying very hard right now to not give DH a hard time. I'm working so hard to keep us within our spending plan. Still paycheck to paycheck right now, but our money is beginning to work for us rather than us working for our money.

DH plays an online RPG, and he has spent $100 on it without telling me beforehand! Now I have to go and dip into our savings to buy groceries for the next few days until payday AND we're overdrawn because we didn't have the $100 because I didn't know he wanted me to set anything aside for his game! He'd told me he made A purchase of about $20 but didn't tell me it was a whole bunch of them!

SIGH..I can make up the dip into our savings from payday, I just hadn't wanted to touch it. It's only enough to cover our move, and just because it might be a little longer before we actually need it doesn't give us the "right" to touch it!! If we touch it, we'll spend it all nickle and diming it away thinking we'll make it up...we've done this more than once before!!!

ARG!! I'm GOING to stay on top of this, and NOT let this happen again but I'm a little bit irritated to say the least!!!

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Registered: 02-19-2004
Sat, 12-11-2004 - 6:06pm
You can't do it alone, he has to be in it with you. I would make it clear he spent the grocery money on his game, you have a right to be angry about that.

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Registered: 05-10-2004
Sat, 12-11-2004 - 10:18pm
I think you have every right to give him a hard time.. He used up your grocery money on a Game!!!

 

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Registered: 09-21-2004
Sat, 12-11-2004 - 10:24pm
I am assuming you handle the money in your relationship!? If you do, do what I do. Allot dh so much a paycheck that he can spend and once its spent tough cookies for him. Or I do this also, make him run all potential expenditures by you first so you can see if you have the money for it or not and when you will if you don't have it right away.
My dh is like a kid. No responsibility. I hate treating him like one but oh well, he'll grow up one day.....or he won't and he keeps getting an allowance and asking me for stuff, just like you would your mommy. Its up to him. lol
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Sun, 12-12-2004 - 5:35pm

My fiance plays an RPG as well, and we have sold some of the stuff (online cards) on ebay. Maybe your DH could sell some of the stuff, whatever it is that he bought?

Just a thought.