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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
Hi!
Would you correct my English, please?
"Which is?"
My American friend said that he managed the family budget. He has a wife and no children.
He also said that women were careless about money and often bought on impulse. “Men have to keep the purse strings.”
This was surprising to me because the situation is opposite in Japan.
So I asked many friends who controlled their purse strings.
Almost all the people I asked said that the woman controls the money. All except for one woman whose husband was a banker.
One married woman said, “If I let him have much money, he goes drinking and spends it all!”
Two married men said, “I don’t want to go to banks. It’s a pain.”
I told them about the American friend, and then most of the women said, “No kidding! No way!”
Is my American friend a unique case in America too?
Which is sensible in your country?
Thank you!  |
Not very many revisions, Yuri. As for who controls the money, I would think it has to be the person who knows the most about finances. It's not restricted to specific genders. Still, it's fairly rare for me to see the man of the family handling finances. I'm probably old-fashioned.