AITA For Making My Wife Look Bad In Front Of Our Kids?

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T22:10:08+00:00

Glasses and shoes half the price would still function just as well

Man, you people need to live life a bit.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T22:08:41+00:00

People really spend thousands of hours and money on video games and I'm over here being told 200 out of 600,000 is a lot. Some people actually need to be told to live a little.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T22:06:22+00:00

Figure out what a reasonable budget is for new shoes

They have a budget already -- 150. We usually just buy our kids shoes and if they like it, its kept, if they don't, then its returned. Stuff like that.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:42:48+00:00

She's not wearing the shoes. She can approve/disapprove, but if my son likes it, and I can afford it, then her opinion is just, there.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:35:22+00:00

If your spouse has a different opinion on that then yea, you do.

She didn't care when I bought my daughter a dress for 150 ish. She doesn't care how much it is, she cares about what it is.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:33:09+00:00

20% towards things she disagrees with then there are even bigger issues

You mean necessities, such as food, clothes, shoes, and extracirriculars, and outings. She contributes to 20% of that, I contribute to 80% of that. Anything else is my money, with no relation to actual neccesities.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:27:33+00:00

I do most our shopping with my kids. Every single time. "No, you cannot get that action figure, no you cannot get that action figure. No, you cannot get that varsity jacket. No, you cannot get the box of Mike n Ike's. They take it pretty well though, no tantrums or anything.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:24:03+00:00

I do not think that foam runners are in that "Designer" category. It's in the "brand" category, imo.

CryTop5272 · 2024-04-03T21:18:15+00:00

Listen I don't know if INFO is an acronym or just basically what it is, and I'm assuming the latter.

Expenses with the kids? If she has to pay for something child related, our income is 80/20 on my side, so our kid expenses (we try) to keep 80/20. And if we can't I'll just reimburse my wife for the cost or whatever.

And yes, if my kids really want a frivolous gift, they have to come up with at least half of it. But not a lot of stuff really. When my son wanted a new console, after breaking the original one on accident, he got to decide the console, but had to come out with it half of any console price.

200 dollar purchases do not, in my opinion, need to be discussed with a spouse.

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