Who's right?

[wanderlustmom]

DH and I have been overspending the last few months so we just instituted a budget for fun money, groceries, miscellaneous and now Christmas presents. I stopped at the outlets by myself and bought him a new pair of badly needed jeans. This is tongue and cheek--but whose fun money should be used? Mine or his since it was my idea but he gets the jeans.

[AAM2012]

Did he ask you to buy him the jeans? No? Then it's your fun money.

[y4m]

You don't get to spend his fun money without his approval--so yours I guess

[lime]

You bought them, it comes out of your fun money.

I'd be irritated if H bought me something I needed and told me it came from my budget. His ass would be back in the car returning it 5 minutes later.

[craftyone]

I would say yours since it was your idea. Maybe there needs to be more budget categories for gifts/clothing. I wouldn't track necessary clothing as something out of fun money.

[wanderlustmom]

You are all right. He said he likes them so he took it out of his, but I told him I would take it out of mine if he didn't want to use his fun money

[krystee]

It would come out of a clothing budget in our case.

[livinitup]

Your poor DH who's naked without new jeans. 

NAKED !

[wanderlustmom]

ha ha, yes, we need a clothes budget. off to add....

and too much info--but all his jeans are too loose. He works out a lot and I bought him a slimmer fit. It is my gift too.

[VillainV]

Ditto a clothing budget. I would also say that fun money should either be all "ours" instead of "yours" and "mine." Or you could do "yours, mine, and ours" but that seems overly complicated.

[RandZB]

Maybe split it in this case? And then add a clothing budget, haha.