He used to be much worse. I’ll have to give him credit that he’s gotten a lot better. I still can’t trust him with money (let alone a check book or a credit card).

That’s great that you and your husband split the duties. With my husband’s budding business, I will be taking care of that as well. I think for us, the manual will be the best bet. I also try to have automatic payments for the big bills like the mortgage and student loans. I figure the more automated everything is – the easier it will be for him. There is just so much information in my head that it really would be a disaster if anything happened.

Thanks for stopping by!

Your husband is kind of like mine. He feels the less he knows the less he has to worry about. Although he does the home accounts, I do the accounts for our business. What we do is about every 6 months we sit down and just go over where the money is going in both our home accounts & our business. This saves us each from having to worry over the day to day details of paying bills but gives a chance to see the overall picture. Your idea of a little book that tells him what to do is good. Just knowing what needs to be paid would be a good idea if you weren’t able to handle things for some reason. Under quickbooks there’s a reminders sections that lists out what needs to be paid & when. When I had our daughter he was able to look at this and see what needed to get paid without me having to do anything.

Good luck
Donna (from prosper)

D – Great post! It’s just hard to keep him in the game when he doesn’t want to play. I look at our finances as sort of my hobby and he looks at them like a chore.

Here is what I do – maybe it will help. I linked back to you.

Will My Spouse Be Ok If I Die

Always a good idea to keep him in the game.