Sneaking purchases...

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Sneaking purchases...
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Thu, 03-25-2004 - 11:10am

I was reading another board about sneaking purchases past their husband's. I know I use to sneak before we started doing our finances together. I would actually come home during lunch to get the mail or unload packages. I was pitiful. Even now, I will bring things in the house and wince thinking how upset Devin would be with me.


So, have you ever hid purchases or not told your DH the whole picture of your finances? We use to horrible fights about finances. I would do the weekly budget and e-mail him it. We would discuss it and everything was fine. Then, he would tell me two days later that he was doing a marathon that cost $75.00. I had to actually ask him before we did the budget-Do you have any marathons? Do you need shoes? Do you have any equipment you need? Can you tell I

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Mallory (age 3)

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:48pm
You know what I mean.

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:48pm

Hey, I was just thinking about posting a thread about how to find personal time. I am POST HAPPY! (I'm stuck waiting for an emergency upgrade of servers at work - it keeps me from chowing at the fridge! LOL)


Cheryl

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:49pm
It's the pushing the envelope thing I'm not comfortable with.

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:53pm
Uhmm...do bras, panties and socks count? I don't own anything white other than those! But I wear white undies year round.
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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:57pm
So if I spend 40 or 50 hours a week with my kid I can be a full-time parent? I mean, I'm a full-time employee with the same time commitment. And when I was a police dispatcher, long ago, and it was a job that needed to be done round-the-clock, I was still considered a full-time police dispatcher even during the time someone else was sitting at the console.
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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 12:57pm

But pushing the envelope does not

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 1:05pm
We're in similar financial situations (I think, judging by your posts). And we're both Christians. And here are a few things I keep in mind when deciding about what percentage of our disposable income we keep:

Amos 2: 5b-6:

So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes..."

Luke 12:48:

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 1:36pm
You can get stylish, UV protection in inexpensive sunglasses. I have several pair. People have actually commented on how nice they looked. The ones I bought at Target have UV protection and they look exactly like the RBs. The biggest difference was they didn't say "Ray Ban" in the corner.
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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 1:44pm
So why the good luck icon........ good luck that I'm going to Hell, or good luck in getting my point across to PNJM. My entire point in this thread is that what we give back to society does not have to be in cash form. I'm lynched for giving 10% of my income (and I keep saying, that is PRE tax) in cash forms, and I'd love to know the percentages of CASH donations given by others in society pre-tax. Alas, but nothing is cared about donations-in-kind and service in this thread. I give so much of myself to causes I believe in that I feel good about myself when I go to bed at night. I doubt the Lord is a banker, He looks at acts first and foremost.
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Wed, 03-31-2004 - 2:02pm

Oh come now, Smokey.

Mondo

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