Free budgeting assistance?

[Gatherer]

Hi

does anyone know where I can get some free practical budgeting help/support for my bpd husband?

i work full time, we have 4 kids. Husband is in charge of managing our home -bills, cooking etc.

He is grocery shopping EVERYDAY! He fixates on silly things " can't possibly cook that meal without an onion" and then shops some more.

we are spending WAY more than we should be and wasting lots of good.

i really don't want to take away his debit card and have to be responsible for all this myself as well as being the breadwinner. It's exhausting.

Mid there some kind of free mentoring for managing home duties for people with mental illness? He doesn't listen to me.

[topsy_]

Hello Gatherer

I live in central west NSW. Here Lifeline have face-to-face financial counselling. It's free too!!

The federal government also have a site on the Internet called "ASIC's Money Smart - track my spend". It's a site that can help you plan out all your spending & make a weekly/fortnight/monthly budget. You only have to put your amounts in & it will do all the working out for you.

After that, once you have decided on a budget, you can either move money that needs to be put aside to another account, or else withdraw the grocery budget amount in cash on the understanding that once it is gone, it's gone!! No top ups!

You could even build in rewards for sticking to the budget.

I find budgeting lots of fun & I enjoy the challenge of having all our bills paid & food in the cupboard.

I hope you will receive lots of responses. Everyone has their own special way. Take care, Lyn.