I use cash because when most people use a card they spend more, and it’s too easy to blow right through budgets that exist only in my head. I get a week’s worth of money out at a time and it goes into our envelope system.
So there are sometimes there is $800 or so in the car, or my desk at home. My wallet generally has $75 or less in it. $75 being my mad money funding amount every two weeks. According to our budget agreement we could both save that money up for a year and then just throw it out the window of the car one day. The only time I say anything is when my wife tries to make up a shortfall in the budget with her personal money.
It’s also totally awesome that I set this system up totally equal and fair, since it started with me making more money than her, and now she’s doubled my salary. I’d be eating crow every month if I had tried to get greedy.
Although digressing a bit, I completely agree with a 50/50 split here. You’re both working towards the same goal and giving, assumedly, the same amount of effort. Just because employers value that effort differently shouldn’t dictate how much you value your efforts in the house.
Yep, I agree too. When my wife was at home with the kids and I was the sole money earner it was always “our money”, not mine.
I figured that she was actually working a heck of a lot harder than I was so her contribution was at least as valuable .
I know people that have her money and his money and that set the amount you can keep by the percentage they make of the total income. I also know couples that divide the bills by category and each pay them separately. Or where his money is spent on maintaining the household, and her money is her spending money.
I think of most of them as not yet divorced. Eventually they have to mature with their finances, or they’ll get in one fight too many about money.
I took this little “help the other department out” position because I was going to be educating people about self funding and helping with sales.
So far all I’ve done is learn how to email paperwork and followup on licensing.
If there was a part of any job I hate, it’s paperwork. And so far all I’ve done is paperwork, so WTF? Did I not understand when you said multiple people said I’d be great for this educational position, or is reality not matching up with planning again?
Enough with going overboard on security. This computer is now so slow that I’m actually having to boot into Safe Mode in order to delete some data files I don’t need any more. I am seriously considering bringing in my own laptop just so I can do my job.
I know people complain about slow computers all the time, but I try not to be one of them. Now I am because I can measure how much this is affecting my ability to do my work. A laptop that takes 5 to 10 minutes to get me to the desktop and is still churning the hard drive means I am waiting on a machine instead doing the work I am assigned.
I’ve clocked it once, for giggles, because it was taking an absurd amount of time to go from password to Desktop (after logon scripts). The longest I’ve clocked was 14 minutes, though the average is about 9. I’m getting tempted as well to start using my home computer for work related stuff because it’s web-based work anyway and my computer has an i7 and 16GB of RAM, whereas my work laptop has an i5 and 4GB. With all of the new programs they’ve added in the last 2 years, it’s any wonder how there’s memory left to run the programs I need. My taskbar/notification bar is a nightmare, and we can’t hide the icons
One guy has already started doing his dev-work on his personal machine for the same reasons. It takes an act of $deity to get an additional 4GB of RAM slotted into these laptops. Heavy Excel work is no longer a good enough excuse, apparently.
I’ve never understood that logic.
4Gb of RAM is around $100 - that’s less than an hour’s work (at what I get charged out at, not what I get paid). Even if you only count the morning startup of 9 minutes that’s about a week for the memory to pay for itself.
A PC with 4Gb of RAM is okay for web browsing (most of the time), but anything more than that and you will be struggling. In a work environment that’s an extremely short-sighted move.
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