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'Who wears the financial trousers?' poll

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Who wears the financial trousers?
Who controls the family finance in your household?
Please answer whichever of these is closest to your situation.
I'm single
I'm single so it's all me
I live with parents so most is them
I'm a man in a couple/family (with female partner)
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
I'm a woman in a couple/family (with male partner)
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
I'm a man/woman in a same-sex couple
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
Who controls the family finance in your household?
Please answer whichever of these is closest to your situation.
I'm single
I'm single so it's all me
I live with parents so most is them
I'm a man in a couple/family (with female partner)
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
I'm a woman in a couple/family (with male partner)
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
I'm a man/woman in a same-sex couple
I control the budget, my partner does financial product choice
I do financial product choice, my partner does the budget
We do it all together
I usually do it all
I leave most of it to my partner
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I fully support Martins finance for schools (I sent the link to the school myself ) as I would benefited back then and perhaps not got a credit card at 18 (bribed by my Company to sweeten going from weekly to monthly paid) and maxed out the £300 in two weeks (1985) I want better planning for my girls as one shows the same tendencies as me even though I try to be responsible - I want her to enjoy her money but budget.:j
Obviously the majority of people are the ones who make the decisions - Do you expect the people who don't make decisions to be the viewing public on MSE?
yes me - its not that i have no interest I am just not good at it....:)
I suppose I am the administrator but we are both on the ruling council, so I picked that we both do it.
I do discuss things with hubby though and we discuss any larger purchases, but he just has no interest in the day to day stuff. I also leave enough of a paper trail so that should anything happen to me there are lists of who gets paid/how much etc and which accounts the money is in.