Needs must when the devil vomits into your kettle! Bob's cunning plan mark 2

boredofbeingathome

Glad she is out of hospital, it will make it a bit easier for you. The thing is as you know Mr.B is a nice chap and would give you his last penny, trouble is he thinks cos i am working a lot more that everything is ok..well duh! He really needs to get a grip..the only reason i bailed out was because the account he uses is the joint account and the last thing i want is to be in shtick with the bank. He is supposed to have sorted out a separate account, he has DS's rent money which should cover his petrol and amazingly he went through £180 in just over a fortnight..!!!!es me off no end that kind of wilful spending.
I know we have been to a pub quiz, which would account for a bit of the spends but not that amount. I have also suspected that he has been buying everyone a round and really he should only buy his own.

elantan

yes you do have a wonderful husband.... but like mr el they do tend to give their last which doesnt help at all... and money well they might as well be wearing blinkers cause they just aint got a clue ....

£180 in a fortnight does sound like he has been buying rounds a quizz night would only account for say £50 at the very very most? (i tend not to go to them so wouldnt know) have you tried a spending diary with him?

Karmacat

Partners......... I still don't geddit. I'm such a grumpy old loner....

Bob, the oinker flu - sorry you've not been able to take the tabs, its miserable - for me, it wasn't as bad as ordinary flu, but it was certainly as long, it just went on and on and on. Very boring. And as for whisky - I've never drunk it regularly, but when I went on a tour of Scotland about 6 or 7 years ago, I visited loads of mini-distilleries (after Julian May wrote about them in The Galactic Milieu saga ) and so I have lots of those tiny wee bottles - I chucked a couple of spoonsfuls into the marmalade, it made quite a difference

boredofbeingathome

I think he has just dribbled it away on bits and bats.
I do the shopping so not spent there and if he fills the car up that is £45 at most for just over a week. So even if he had filled it up twice he couldn't have used it all.
He will have to have a spending diary. BTW he had the £180 on the 7th so it is less than a fortnight it has gone..grr!

boredofbeingathome

I can't remember the last time i tasted whisky KC- but in marmalade does sound very moorish i have to say...

Karmacat

Good grief. Thats a helluva lot of money.

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Good grief. Thats a helluva lot of money.

yep and i had a bail out as well..:o

Budget is broken down that he can use the joint account and make his payments.
Into it is paid-
His wages
Child benefit
Family tax credit
any MSE extras such as quidco, amazon etc,

And he gets DS's rent money!

My account is just my wages, i pay all my outgoings, expenses( company travel- which i claim back) etc half the mortgage an utilities i buy the food and lately have been coughing up for college expenses as well. Plus i seem to cop for all the birthdays and sundries.
The theory is that the joint account really shouldn't have to be touched if petrol is separate and should be going down by £400 a month so in theory overdraft should be gone in about 8 months give or take. I say 8 months to account for contingencies.

I am still overpaying things but he is making it impossible for me to say that £200 spare is going to pay off something...

Next month i am keeping the money and he will have to ask me if he wants to fill up the car..sounds bloomin horrible, but it has to be that way now.

Karmacat

If you want to pay off the debt, thats how it has to be, unhappily..... he can't want to live with it, and you're the one who can solve it, but I'm sorry you're having to do it.

I'm going to do my walk round the block to stretch my legs, and take those offcuts to my neighbour......... see you later xxx

boredofbeingathome

Catch you later KC, sorry i am turning into the other BOB- Bitter Old Bag BOB...must try harder to be positive.

ZTD

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

He really needs to get a grip..the only reason i bailed out was because the account he uses is the joint account and the last thing i want is to be in shtick with the bank.

Why don't you change the joint bank account into a basic [i.e. Government mandated] bank account. That way, once it has gone, it's gone.