It really depends on your relationship and how you function as a couple - me and my partner both work, he earns me than me but we put our money together. We live together so it the easiest thing really for us - have you thought about setting up a small saving account where you put money for when your child needs bits and bobs so you both pay into it and then you can access it when you need? xx
You can't touch the child trust fund until she is 18 I don't thin anyway - but I mean like @Earthmummy said a current account that you both put a bit into each month and you can then access the money easily without having to think half and half when your paying for it. xx
my patner works and i was made redundant a few weeks before i gave birth to our son (still got maternity pay and some redundancy tho). We used my money to pay off a credit card and to buy our sons clothes as we didn't know the sex so had hardly anything, swing, play gym etc. My parter pays all the house hold bills rent etc. I only pay for the sky tv, landline and my mobile and i usually do the food shop. I went mad on clothes for our son when he was born and kitted him out until he is 18months so dont really need to buy him anything until then! He iss 11 months now. Now my son is older and I am going to start working again but working for myself doing nails, I have been qualified for 5 years, did the course when my daughter was 2 so that should bring in a little bit more money which will go on treats for the kids, days out etc or towards a holiday.
It really depends on your relationship and how you function as a couple - me and my partner both work, he earns me than me but we put our money together. We live together so it the easiest thing really for us - have you thought about setting up a small saving account where you put money for when your child needs bits and bobs so you both pay into it and then you can access it when you need? xx
by KittyBoo 5 March 2010
yeah we have a savings account for her already.. which i've been putting all my grants in. I don't really want to touch that.
by Georgia91 5 March 2010
You can't touch the child trust fund until she is 18 I don't thin anyway - but I mean like @Earthmummy said a current account that you both put a bit into each month and you can then access the money easily without having to think half and half when your paying for it. xx
by KittyBoo 7 March 2010
yeah that's what we've been using a current account.
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by Georgia91 7 March 2010
my patner works and i was made redundant a few weeks before i gave birth to our son (still got maternity pay and some redundancy tho). We used my money to pay off a credit card and to buy our sons clothes as we didn't know the sex so had hardly anything, swing, play gym etc. My parter pays all the house hold bills rent etc. I only pay for the sky tv, landline and my mobile and i usually do the food shop. I went mad on clothes for our son when he was born and kitted him out until he is 18months so dont really need to buy him anything until then! He iss 11 months now. Now my son is older and I am going to start working again but working for myself doing nails, I have been qualified for 5 years, did the course when my daughter was 2 so that should bring in a little bit more money which will go on treats for the kids, days out etc or towards a holiday.
by mumof2 8 March 2010