Hi all,
Just seeking input from anyone that may be in a similar situation. I am a very frugal person and always have been... Sales, couponing, and thrifting are the only way to go in my eyes. I was raised in a very money conscious household with one moderate income parent who had many bouts of unemployment and another parent with a very low and very unpredictable income. So money has always been a point of worry in my house and I'm always very conscious of it, and I track my spending to a T with intense budgeting. My boyfriend of two years has a (legal!) side job where he makes large sums of money at once and also spends big amounts sometimes on equipment for his job. He was also raised in a household where only one parent had to work and there was always plenty of money. He tends to like the nicer things in life and worry less about things like going out to dinner or buying new clothes. We are starting to look at buying a house together and I have a worry that I can't shake about our financial views causing issues down the road. I will say that we have discussed at length many situations where we have similar or widely disparate incomes, how we'd split things, how much we'd save and spend, etc and that is all on par. It's not necessarily the spending habits I'm worried about, it's just how we view money overall.
Anyone with a partner who isn't as frugal as them? How do you deal?
May 19, 2018 at 11:07PM
