But her husband is already raiding his farm account to pay for household expenses.
However, women reported being more concerned than men about household expenses, debt and their ability to save for retirement.
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The survey also found that 59% of working mothers manage the household expenses alone, including day-to-day finances and long-term investing.
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Ms. Vogt's stepdaughter isn't working since she's still in school, so the Vogts don't ask her to contribute to household expenses.
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Sixty percent say they're trimming household expenses because of gas prices.
After all of the household expenses have been paid, each member of the couple gets some money to spend on whatever he or she would like.
In the previous generation, the latest television sets were big household expenses, just like they are today, but they stayed operational and sufficient for a couple of decades.
Maybe each of you contributes an equal amount of money or percentage of your paychecks into an operating fund and the bills and household expenses can be paid from there.
To calculate the percentage of average household income in each state that goes toward gas, median incomes derived from 2004 Census Bureau figures were compared to the average annual household expenses for gasoline.
Even many houses right underneath the grid cannot afford connection fees, a meter, and household wiring expenses.
This allows them to accrue equity--a positive thing--but also forces them to incur big expenses, like household maintenance, homeowners and life insurance, and furniture.
Without credit it can be near impossible to obtain loans for any purpose, or even to manage the expenses of running your household.
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It seems unreasonably simple to me: if your household budget is out of balance, the rational person would seek to increase income while decreasing expenses.
Family gifts that finance the living expenses of a college student who otherwise appears in the statistics as a low income household are also not counted, again exaggerating income inequality, or at least differences in standard of living.
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