We got the stimulus check yesterday for the $2400 amount. In just a couple hours my husband blew half of it on Amazon. A big chunk of that was he bought myself one of those Arcade 1 Up machines. He’s been wanting one for awhile since they came out. I knew he was going to buy it and we agree it was okay. But that was $250. The rest is random stuff. Like ice cube trays 🧐 like why? He bought me 2 pairs of maternity pants ($40). Which was very thoughtful. But the rest was completely on himself. Now he wants the rest of it to go towards bills. I get it as a sensible thing to do of course. But here I sit bummed out that he went and spent so much on himself and I don’t get to enjoy any of it. I wanted to put a large chunk of it away for the baby (head start on school fund) and maybe buy something tiny for our new house.

I’m not red hot mad per say just wtf dude? He keeps trying to justify it and doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. How is this fair?

ETA: I think some of you are being pretty mean and saying my husband doesn’t care about me. We discussed it and some of the random things he bought he said he bought for our new home with both of us in mind. He was disappointed that I was upset because he said he had put a lot of thought into the purchases and was trying to help. As for the arcade game, we had agreed to it as it was something he’s been wanting for years since they came out. I added up his purchases and it didn’t come out to $1200. Since they were many small purchases it seemed that way. I’m only 3 months pregnant and I know once the baby is here all our extra money will gladly be going to them. So I was fine with him doing something for him because he works hard and sacrifices for us. We went over it together and I feel better. I missed that he made a $300 gift to our church which I was very happy to see. We decided TOGETHER to put the money towards a bill, our mortgage, so we could be a months ahead on it.

Also to the person asking how old we are for him buying a game system. Rude. We’re in our 30s and like things from our childhood. Sit down with your manners.