advice column: ‘My wife spends her free time watching teenagers, with $100K cosmetic collections, playing with makeup on YouTube’

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'My wife spends her free time watching teenagers, with $100K cosmetic collections, playing with makeup on YouTube'

'It's gotten to the point where her cosmetics expenditure is our household's largest expense, exceeding our vehicles and housing. Meanwhile, I'm keeping us...

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My wife and I have about $4,000 in expenses each month. She brings in 14% of our total income while I bring in 86%. Before we married she lived with her wealthy parents and, from my point of view, lacks vital adult experiences she would have gained fending for herself had she lived on her own.

In January, I came across a late credit-card statement in our mail that caused me to take a closer look at her expenditures. For the past two months she had been spending, on average, $100 a day, on cosmetics. After 60 days her account was overdrawn and she had spent $6,000.

I came from a frugal lower-middle-class family. My mom has three lipsticks total. My wife has over 125 lipsticks, costing $15 to $30 each, and she keeps buying more.

I’m just exhausted. I’ve been working, planning, saving and living below my means my whole life to achieve financial independence and provide a comfortable life for my household. I max out both of our IRAs, and I am the sole contributor to our other long-term retirement goals. I am insulted and disgusted with the amount of money being spent on cosmetics.

 

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The beauty community is a different beast on YouTube, trust me, you don't want no smoke with these folks, most toxic culture on the Internet, unsurprisingly.