Put away the boxing gloves

If there’s one topic that’s likely to cause an argument in Pete and Myra’s house, it's money. Pete’s spur of the moment spending sprees drive Myra nuts. No matter how hard she tries to minimise the times he’s alone with their credit card, Pete can’t seem to help himself – if he spots something he wants, he buys it. For Pete’s part, he doesn’t understand why Myra gets so worked up about it. After all, that’s what a credit card’s for isn’t it?

Friends tell Myra & Pete about the Money Personality Profile on Sorted and how it helped them understand why they had such different attitudes to money. So the two of them decide to give it a go.

Not surprisingly, Pete discovers he’s a Money Maestro – prone to bursts of extravagant expenditure. Myra on the other hand is a Practical Domestic – someone who likes order and structure with money, and believes in saving. No wonder Pete’s tendencies with the credit card have her lying awake at night.

They work together to reach a compromise. They set Pete a monthly spending fund – an amount he can use to buy whatever he likes, as long as he keeps within the budget. And Myra agrees to the fund being slightly more than she’d normally agree to – because she knows they’ll actually be able to save more than before because Pete’s no longer got a free reign with the credit card.