My spouse appreciates very much that I am very conservative and practical with our finances. Compared to him, I am a cheapskate. I try my best to cook all our delicious meals to avoid eating out, for example. I penny-pinch, period. However, I give way to the joys of HIS life too, like his brand-new 1100-cc Honda Shadow we bought for cash, for him to “save gas” (yeah, right….)
But maybe there is truth that sometimes the wife has more of a need to keep up with the Joneses. There are exceptions like us, of course – (they call us the weirdos, ha-ha.)
