What saving incentive programs do you have with your spouse/SO

[Optsol]

Seeing a few other threads around on money and co-habitation, I wanted to kick this off. Incentive programs to save!

For example: For home fixup projects or car jobs (brakes), we get quotes, and then if I/we can do it cheaper, we take the difference and split it three ways, 1/3 for her to spend, 1/3 for me to spend, 1/3 to savings.

Example: Brake job 200$, Me on a saturday trying to figure it out + pads + tools = 100$. Spending spree for me 33$!. Of course, my wife gets a cut because she has to deal with me swearing in the driveway , and the savings gets a boost too -- everyone wins.

Obviously the pure route is to send it all to savings, and you may adjust your %s accordingly, but we find that the incentive part of it encourages us to seek out things to try.

Your thougts?

[Ima saver]

This is an interesting idea. My husband knows how to fix almost everything and usually does. Maybe I should pay him and make him save it?

[jodi]

Optsol - great idea. I can't think of any specific program we have in our house, but I will say that DH is a reformed spendthrift (from a long line of spendthrifts) who saw the light when he realized how nice it was not to pay cc bills or to live paycheck to paycheck anymore.

[PrincessPerky]

hmm does 'spend less on grocerys have a happy wife'.count??

[Optsol]

anything counts