three things i would like to do, aspire to, to improve my budgetting, is
- learn how to put my budget on an Excel spreadsheet
- learn how to do a meal plan (as described in the Simply Savings $21 book)
- grow some herbs, vegies to reduce my veg bill

I've just come out of a unhealthy r'ship, where we didn't have a family budget, my X flat out refused to discuss money management with me, and foisted many family bills onto me. So I've had experience of what NOT to do. what DOESN"T work.

I am curious, what the other side of that coin is. How people in functioning couples, do the money/bills together. So that it's fair. Unsure if this means shared accounts, or separate. I suppose it's complicated if you do things like buy a big asset (house) together. I've just never known what people in functioning r'ships do about this (i was brought up never to ask about money, so now i'm ignorant). It would be nice to know, JIC an elephant falls out of the sky, and i find myself in another r'ship (right now, that seems SO unlikely). I've only ever gone out with guys who
- earn more than me
- have moths in their wallets, but when they go without basics, i cannot help myself, and buy them what they need, even though i know darn well, they should buy it themselves.