Money Problems

I hate having to write about this all the time (not like I do it all the time, but when I first started my blog I talked about money), so I'll keep it brief.

Ed and I were having disagreements lately about going to my contest locations in VT or MA because he said 'I already paid for the party for the entire weekend, why would I want to leave the fairgrounds?' My answer is 'becuase it's someplace new and exciting and we're so close, why not?' You can tell who likes riding and who likes partying it up.

Now I realize that he is flat broke. Like flat, flat broke. He told me last night that he had to put some money from here into there, and do some shuffling for his checks to clear. That's not good.
Another thing that was his idea, was to put money in a "secret place" starting in January. If we saved 20 bucks a week, we'd have our vacation to Sturgis paid for. I have spare fun money, so I wasn't into it at all. When the time came to go to Sturgis, I just figured I'd take out some fun money and go on my way. But..I started contributing to the secret stash, and now the stash has really accumulated. The only problem is that Ed's been taking out of the secret stash, and I think he owes like 150 or maybe even 200 to the stash. I seriously don't look in there, so I have no idea what's there or what's not there.

It just makes me mad that he can't get his finances together. I'm cheap/frugal/whatever so I save my money for things I want. For example, I bought that purse the other day. It's not something I need, but every now and again I just want something new. A total impulse buy. These happen few and far between, but I'd rather have a rainy day fund than nothing. I think I would seriously kill myself if I had 0 dollars and 0 cents. That's enough venting for today.