Who Payes the Bills

[Bird]

We've been married 45 years and I've still never been able to get my wife to take any interest at all in our finances. When I went to the FBI National Academy for 10 weeks, I gave her a list of the bills/payments she'd need to take care of, and of course she can do it and did do it, but only when she had to. Of course now I do it all on the computer (which is something else she's never had any interest in).

 

[ToadHill]

I do it. We tried having my wife pay the bills a couple times durring the early part of out married like, it was not a pretty sight.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We've been married 45 years and I've still never been able to get my wife to take any interest at all in our finances. When I went to the FBI National Academy for 10 weeks, I gave her a list of the bills/payments she'd need to take care of, and of course she can do it and did do it, but only when she had to. Of course now I do it all on the computer (which is something else she's never had any interest in).

I hear ya.

 

[Gizmo2]

The wife. I tell her what to pay and she does the work. If we don't have enough money for all the bills we work it out together. Has worked well for 35 years.

 

[RavensRoost]

Second marriage for both of us, so separate checking accounts and "his and hers bills" made for a lot less stress in the marriage in the beginning. Of course they are both joint accounts and doesn't really matter where the money comes from now after 20+ years. Normally, I pay all the "operating" costs except food and she pays for special stuff e.g. house redecorating etc..

But to the OP, I use online banking for almost all payments, been a long time since I have written a paper check, works great for me and I like it. On the other hand, cannot for the life of me get wife to use online banking, still writes checks for her bills, but at least she uses debit for purchases. ;-)

 

[charlz]

Second marriage for both of us, so separate checking accounts and "his and hers bills" made for a lot less stress in the marriage in the beginning. Of course they are both joint accounts and doesn't really matter where the money comes from now after 20+ years. Normally, I pay all the "operating" costs except food and she pays for special stuff e.g. house redecorating etc..

But to the OP, I use online banking for almost all payments, been a long time since I have written a paper check, works great for me and I like it.

Same for me... except its my first marriage and only 17 years :laughing:

 

[RavensRoost]

charlz, that way you can at least pretend to still have some independence. ;-)

 

[igpoobah]

I do. I'm not interested in not being in control of the money.

And my wife couldn't care less about it. Works out well.

 

[kidr]

My wife pays the bills and takes care of all the small stuff , like where we live what we eat where the kids go to school. I take care of the big stuff like foreign policy, national debt, etc.

 

[teg]

2 separate accounts, I get the 2 credit cards, one paid by check other paid online, she has the rest... after 18 years, I finally put her on my account (needed new checks anyway ). She still has tons of checks left since most of her bills are automatic drafts. We even split the cost of the tractor