My Husband Spends Too Much On The Lawn and It Bothers Me
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.0 | So my husband spends a lot of our landscaping budget on trying to get grass to grow in the desert. |
| 0:13.0 | Is it fair for me to ask him to spend futile grass spending from his fund money. |
| 0:23.5 | How much is he spending? I got to know this number. |
| 0:29.9 | Well, like in a summer season between sod and seed and water, |
| 0:34.3 | it's probably like 250 to 300 bucks out of our $500 budget. |
| 0:38.7 | Your $500 budget for what? |
| 0:45.4 | The $500 is the line item for landscaping? |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, for like a season. |
| 0:48.6 | Okay. |
| 0:49.3 | It's not a lot. |
| 0:50.1 | Okay. |
| 0:51.3 | And what's your household income? |
| 0:56.4 | I mean, it's a trivial amount compared to our budget. What's your household income? I mean, it's a trivial amount compared to our budget. |
| 0:57.5 | What's your household income? |
| 0:59.1 | What? |
| 1:01.1 | Sorry, 210. |
| 1:03.5 | 210,000. Okay. All right. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.9 | And so, yeah, and it's, so is it the futility that bothers you? |
| 1:18.3 | I think so. And we just have like, even though we have a high income, we have a lot of other things that we're putting that money towards. |
| 1:27.5 | So it's like we've carved out this number that we agree on. |
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