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How much of your income do you spend on wife for Christmas?

Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:10 pm
Posted by RedStickBR
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:10 pm
Talking percentage of your gross household income. A few of my coworkers brought this up at work the other day and some of them said as high as 5%. I find that absolutely ludicrous, but I've been known to be cheap at times.
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Posted by jdeval1
Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:11 pm to
.001%
Posted by sta4ever
Member since Aug 2014
17936 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:12 pm to
Baw%
Posted by TheWalrus
Land of the Hogs
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:13 pm to
3.50%
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:13 pm to
On your wife? None.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49487 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:14 pm to
I don't know..enough to get laid.
Posted by FearTheFish
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:14 pm to
quote:

A few of my coworkers brought this up at work the other day and some of them said as high as 5%.


5% of minimum wage isn't that much though
Posted by AU66
Northport Al
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:15 pm to
.0004...$59 chocos, they were on sale
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37487 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:15 pm to
I’m not spending 5% on Christmas
Posted by TRUERockyTop
Appalachia
Member since Sep 2011
16884 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:15 pm to
Very little. We get each other 1 big present and use the rest of what we would have spent on each other to spoil the kids and take a vacation in the spring/early summer.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62216 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:15 pm to
This year, around $300. Most I've spent on her for Christmas in quite awhile.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76218 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:16 pm to
Varies, she’s gotten a few vehicles at Christmas, that’s the most expensive things I’ve given to her.
Posted by CaptainJ47
Gonzales
Member since Nov 2007
7863 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:16 pm to
750 is about 0.37% for me.
Posted by PolyPusher86
St. George
Member since Jun 2010
3357 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:17 pm to
Spending 5% of your gross income on your wife for Christmas is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. Imagine trying to satisfy that wench
Posted by theantiquetiger
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Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:17 pm to
I started a Christmas acct at the credit union a few years ago. It comes to about $1500 a year. That's her budget. But that also includes Anniversary last week and daughter's birthday the week after Christmas.

I have two kids
Posted by RedStickBR
Member since Sep 2009
14577 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:28 pm to
So let's use the minimum wage example, just for fun. If they're making $15,000, that's still $750.

That's absolutely insane.

If they put 10% into retirement, they'd have to make a 50% ROI just to offset the Christmas spending binge on the wife, and 10% is a decently high amount to put away each year for retirement. The average minimum wage earner isn't putting anything close to that in retirement.
Posted by RedStickBR
Member since Sep 2009
14577 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:30 pm to
Nice subtle brag. At least you required readers to do math
Posted by VerbalKint
Member since Jun 2017
4309 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:30 pm to
I just dick her down an extra time or two Christmas week.
Posted by RedStickBR
Member since Sep 2009
14577 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:33 pm to
The only thing I can think is that maybe some people are buying their wives vehicles for Christmas and 5% is the down payment they put down.

That actually may not be a bad strategy as at some point you're going to be buying a vehicle for the wife anyway. Might as well kill two birds with one stone and disguise something you'd be out for anyway as a "Christmas gift." But that would realistically be a once or (maybe twice) a decade type gift.
Posted by RedStickBR
Member since Sep 2009
14577 posts
Posted on 12/16/17 at 12:35 pm to
That seems like an entirely reasonable amount for a birthday, an anniversary and Christmas.
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