Wife with a worldie today. We have a motorized standing desk. A few months back, it stopped working. She gets a replacement top sent under warranty. I took the computer off of it and we were getting ready to move it to replace the top and she goes “did you unplug the desk?” Nope. It was just unplugged. That’s why it wasn’t working.
I know that feeling. A week ago I got everything ready for chili so that I only needed my wife to grab it from the fridge, insert it in the crock pot and turn it on while I was at work. I got home and the chili was in the crock pot turned to low but she never plugged in the crock pot.
I pucker up so hard any time my wife needs to do something food related. I usually set alarms on the google speaker, the microwave, and the oven so she can't ignore just one or two things yelling at her
I don’t know how this company is still in business. We now own one base and 3 tops. The first one they sent was the wrong one. And they didn’t want it back, they just sent a new one.
I set an Alexa timer in two rooms for her. I just didn’t think about the need to tell her to plug it in. I would have plugged it in myself but the outlet is used to toast waffles for the kids before school.
My wife is the queen of the half-task. Want toilet paper brought up from the basement and put in the upstairs bathroom? Sorry, that’s only getting from the basement to the staircase for the next 3 days. New clothes for the kid? That’ll be moved around various spots in the kitchen for a week before it gets in his dresser. Clean up after dinner? Sure, everything but the counter will get wiped down. She has an uncanny ability to do the majority of a chore, but never finish it, which my friends and I refer to as “half-tasks”.
Wife had a call with work go until nearly 7, which left to make dinner (again) after she said she’d take care of it (again) and eating alone for the second time this week, and then she has a zoom meeting with her roller derby team’s leadership at 8, and she asked me why I seem annoyed.
my brother-in-law works for the IRS and is married to my wife’s twin. Her to him, ‘hey Dan if I do **insert something that borders on or is illegal** will that save me how much money?’ Him with a ‘wtf’ face. Me with a facepalm. He is pretty awesome dude so it helps a lot when one of our wives is up to something crazy and we can both look at each other with a, ‘I know that feel.’
This is me. All the time. I end up with 5 unwritten emails at the end of the day that complete and send because I get distracted easily.
The amount of times I’ve walked into a room to do something, forgot what I walked into that room to do, went back to previous spot, only to go back again once I remembered …
I'm standing in my garage right now trying to think of what it was I was gunna do out here this evening that I thought about earlier today Second beer should help my memory
Woke up to a two banger this morning… My wife left a back burner on low all night long and also left the freezer cracked since dinner. The cold from the freezer and the heat from the stove balanced out to a nice 68* in the kitchen.
no he isn’t. He told my wife to basically shut the hell up. he just got a promotion but used to audit super large corporations. Me and my wife would not qualify in any realm as having billions of dollars at our disposal.
Just got the quarterly "I just looked at our finances..." text from my wife, which is code for me having to listen to her rant about how we're spending too much money when I get home later. I could be a little better about making lunch to bring with me to work vs getting takeout from somewhere. But I'm also not the one buying a bunch of shit we don't need on Amazon or at Costco every week. Sure, it's cool that we now have a roomba or outside refrigerator. But then why are you shocked when we don't have as much money to put in savings as you would like for this pay period? And of course all of this is happening the morning I start pressing her that we need to plan trips/camps/etc. for the summer now so we don't run into the same problem as last week where she decided she wants a beach vacation during the kids spring break a month out and everything is either booked or triple the cost.
I’m your wife and you’re my wife. And people actually put money in savings every pay period? You rich folks got it nice. There’s nothing leftover in my house after gas/electric get paid each month.
My wife is the bread winner. I let her…. She handles all her shit. I just try to fly under the radar with my expenses.
My wife handles all of it for us. I don’t even really look at the bank account, and if a bill is not on auto draft and somehow my responsibility, I’m going to pay it late like a dumbass.
This. I don’t do or know shit about our finances. She will ask, and my answer is always whatever she thinks is best.
I could only dream of the freedom that must come with being blissfully unaware of personal finances. Instead I’m over here micromanaging every cent like a psychopath.
That's only because we've learned the life hack of closing our freezers and turning off the burners at night
I micromanage finances, which is why we keep separate accounts. As long as my wife pays her student loans and contributes up to her 401k match, I have no idea what she spends. It's a blissful ignorance that works for us.
My objection wouldn't stop her from buying everything anyway, so might as well be ignorant and keep my blood pressure down.
My wife pays the bills and I keep the budget up to date and handle all savings/investments. Works pretty well for us.
This used to be my wife. It took her about 5 years of me beating it into her head that we’re fine for her to finally relax. Now she’s gone the other way and will drop $1500 on new drivers and woods on a whim. It’s kind of hilarious.
On the money subject, my wife wanted me to be home to receive some kind of mirror. I was thinking it was some shit she got on amazon, but it's apparently from some silly specialty store that has its own delivery service. Not a goddamn chance I'm going to the website to see what that cost
Our finances work well because my wife is relatively cheap/frugal and has forgotten her PIN and password to our bank account. She constantly assumes the account is low and we don’t save anything. I don’t bother telling her balances.
Why would you do that? I indoctrinated my wife so well when we first got married that 20 years later she will still often instinctively reply “we can’t afford it we’re on a budget” if a family member floats a now comfortably affordable weekend away or big group gift
My wife stays home with the kids. I take care of all financial stuff, she has no idea how much money we make, and I buy whatever I want. Spoiler I can’t buy anything without her permission, but when it comes to vacations she is a banana costs $10 meme.
my wife hasn't logged into our finances since like....'16, no checking bank account, credit card, nada she makes absurd money and is cheap so it works out
I'm sure most of us file taxes jointly. My wife and I have no clue what the other does, but we're both responsible and she makes quite a bit more than I do so there's a built in cushion. We talk about big purchases.
Kids 2nd birthday tomorrow. My day: 8:30- 9:30 work conference call 9:30-10:30 trip to grocery store to order food for party and pick up stuff. 10:30-2:00. pressure clean the patio, clean leaves out of pool, clean pool filters, finalize new sprinkler system that was installed yesterday, clean patio furniture 2:00-3:30 another work conference call and respond to emails 3:30-4:30 trip to Costco and liquor store for more party supplies. 4:30-7:00 put drinks in coolers, put the now clean patio furniture in correct spots, clean inside of house, etc. Wife’s day 9-7 keep half an eye on child while she worked on the party favors for the 10 kids coming to the party. Guess who is the asshole for not caring what the party favors looked like at end of day? Next year this damn thing is gonna be at a trampoline park.