Friday, May 11, 2007

Budgeting!

I did what all men ask their wifey to do - "Budget Cuts!!!" On a fine Monday morning, off I am paying my credit card bills! I realize I am spending waaayyyyyy more than what I normally did....
Naturally, I shifted the blame game to my dearest wifey!
"Priya, we need to start running a tight ship", "we are leaking dollars everywhere"










"What happened hubby? Spending is normal, stinginess ain't!"
, says Priya. "Plus you are not single any more, expenses are expected to go up!"
"Last month we ran up quite a bill on expenses!" I exclaim, "We need to cut it down"

I could feel a chill creeping between us, I try to remember all the stuff that I read on "Men are from Mars,Women are from Venus" at that moment of time, my mind is a blank.

Have you ever had a dessert wine? Its sweet but really chilled.
The Ice Wine Speaks - "Off you go to the office, we will talk about this later today"

I do not think any more about it till I get a mail from my wifey....
It contains a nice little excel spreadsheet with breakdowns on what money was spent on and what not!
See if for yourselves...
I guess my dearest wifey saw all these numbers as barcodes!
She was scanning 'n ' churning them as the self service aisle at Walmart!

After I read the mail, I came to the following conclusion.


If your strong point is not finance, don't bring it up.
If your wife is an MBA in finance, never question her numbers.
Always accept the fact that its always your fault, your wife is always right.
You are mere participant in grander scheme of things, wifey is the Kapitän of the ship!




Now how do I tell her, It is ooookayyyy if the coffee table does not match the coffee cups....?

4 comments:

Kavita said...

always remember.. the coffee table and the cups go together!! and so does the clock on the wall..[:D]

anyway Im going to talk to priya and hvae her develop one excel sheet for me!![:)]

Jay said...

WOw! ivalo thaana... get matching bed speads, curtains, couch, table etc.... you need that next. I will add fuel to the fire. When you were single you didnt need such luxuries... now you do....

s said...

nanna iru

Sumitra

Anusha V said...

lessons learned from this escapade:

1. a Girl's got to have her matching china

2. never come between a Girl and her shopping

:)