Do men spend more than woman?
My wife has a theory and it goes a little like this;
"Women shop more than men but men spend more than women."
Is she right? Does she have a valid theory?
Her theory tests the age-old stereotype that woman have a genetic-DNA-thingy that propels them forward in the shopping stakes. For it may just be that men are the ultimate consumers.
When she first shared this enlightening theorem with me I balked at the notion but as I contemplated it further I realised that she may just have a point.
Taking my spending habits as a test case scenario I quickly realised that the majority of purchases that I made were above $500; laptop, iPaq, trip to Tasmania, VW Kombi project, software and I'm saving for a Canon 400D.
My wife, on the other hand, buys lots of clothes. Frocks, dresses, shoes, jeans - you name it she's buying it. In fact, more than half of the times that she goes shopping she will come back with something. The difference is though, that she will have only spent a maximum $10-20 on her shopping trip and she only shops like this once of twice per month.
So, while she seems to ALWAYS be shopping - while I never go - she ends up spending far less than I do. What's wrong with this picture?
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your anecdote is what alot of other couples experience, imo. The wife shops more frequently, but isn't buying big ticket items. The husband shops less frequently but when he does it's significant: 3 digits (hundreds) or 4 digits (thousands) purchase price. So yep, I agree!
Posted by: finance girl | March 22, 2007 7:26 AM
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Posted by: shelly | March 29, 2007 4:14 AM
Haha, I am strongly agreed with your wife's theoery, haha. Even we go shopping a lot, but normal come back with nothing or just 1 or 2 cloths, and normally will cost us less than RM100. But once my husband bought, he may bought Camera, hand phone which cost a lot.
Posted by: maria | March 30, 2007 4:32 PM
Perhaps men do spend more, perhaps not, but from my experiences it seems to me that men buy items which have a higher resale value, (boats, cars, houses, stocks etc...) as opposed to (clothes, perfume, etc...). When this is accounted for, men probably spend more on assets than women and thus keep more of what they spend.
Posted by: David | December 17, 2007 11:01 AM