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How much input does your gf/wife/significant other have in your life choices?

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    #92
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Man, some people in here are mental.

    Smash, it's your money. As long as it doesn't negatively impact whatever you both plan to do together in the future then there shouldn't be a problem.

    Myself and my GF have separate bank accounts. We also have a joint account for the usual mortgage, bills, shopping etc.

    Anything in our separate account is our own money and we are free to do whatever we want with it. As long as the mortgage and bills are covered there's no problem.

    Yesterday I told her I was converting our unused garage into a man cave. No problem. She wants an extension with concertina sliding doors, I said no problem. I'm planning an underground extension at the moment, she hasn't got a problem with that either. Some people freak out for the sake of it.

    Simple answer though....just don't tax the car. Problem solved. Use the tax money to buy her a 1 seater couch..... :)


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    #93
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    I have a long-term GF and we live together. That being said, we don't share finances so we don't really have any "say" in what we spend or do individually. Alternatively, although I ask her advice on big decisions I'm not necessarily going to follow it - it's not like it would be IMO if we were married.

    I guess more than getting input per se, I consider her in the decisions I make. Lol I wouldn't just take some job overseas and be like :wave: from the airport. :P


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    #94
    fits
    Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Simple answer though....just don't tax the car. Problem solved. Use the tax money to buy her a 1 seater couch..... :)


    I think the tax money would probably buy a nice three piece suite ;)


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    #95
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    fits wrote: »
    I think the tax money would probably buy a nice three piece suite ;)

    Don't you be winking at me! You looking for half of my stuff?!


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    #96
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I'm getting conscious that I might be portraying her as a bitch, because she's not. She's just a bit scabby :pac:


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    #97
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    fits wrote: »
    I think the tax money would probably buy a nice three piece suite ;)

    The motor tax on these cars could be used to buy her a decent runabout. Couch me ear, sit on a transmission crate. ;)


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    #98
    fits
    Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭fits


    jimgoose wrote: »
    The motor tax on these cars could be used to buy her a decent runabout. Couch me ear, sit on a transmission crate. ;)

    Maybe she wouldnt want a 'runabout'


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    #99
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    fits wrote: »
    Maybe she wouldnt want a 'runabout'

    Indeed. I found this in eight seconds:

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/jaguar/9669680?offset=2


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    #100
    fits
    Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Yep thats pretty bad alright. Must have been some wedding if it took up 15k plus savings plus parents contributions plus gifts!


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    #101
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    off topic, but if shes lying about that... what else could she be lying about


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    #102
    Ashbx
    Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Ashbx


    smash wrote: »
    I'm getting conscious that I might be portraying her as a bitch, because she's not. She's just a bit scabby :pac:

    Yeah, it really doesn't help her case when you come on here to say...
    smash wrote: »
    I got the text of the century 15 minutes ago:

    "Can I borrow your car tomorrow to show my parents?"


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    #103
    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Funny I was just thinking of the affect my gf is having on my life, the people at work told me Ive calmed down a lot and seem to really be enjoying myself. I was offered a job in Toronto which if by myself, I would have taken if nothing but the money, I turned it down cause she didnt want to stay here, she never said it as such, I just knew she didnt.
    I think the right person has a positive impact on life, mine has for sure, looking forward to taking her home to mammy and daddy, well mostly to watch her try understand my father :pac::D:pac:


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    #104
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,403 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    The issue here isn't the car, it's that the OP and his girlfriend quite simply aren't same page when it comes to finances, whether joint or separate.

    OP, considering you've already been around the block already, you probably don't need me to tell you that this is something you need to get sorted before you hitch your wagon again. Any issues you have now are fixable. Get married and it's a different ballgame.


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    #105
    GoingBonkers
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭GoingBonkers


    1 vote for 0 input


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