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Tight Married Couple Invoice Each Other For things As Trivial As 50c
Monday 27th February 2012 | Osh
During an ‘ambivalent’ 20 year marriage, a couple billed each other for items such as a $1.60 light bulb.
Their relationship lasted purely for luxury holidays and weekly social outings, according to a magistrate left to split the Australian couple’s assets. He called their marriage ‘unusual’ and ‘pernickety.’
The pair married in 1991 and are both in their 70s. They would spend weekends at the wife’s home, but never actually moved in together!
Keeping their finances separate, they would invoice each other for items less than a dollar.
They went on trips and cruises all around the world and the court heard that the only thing they did together was take holidays.
They hardly need to be so tight with money though, the wife’s assets increased to almost $4 million, and at significantly less was the husband’s wealth at £315,000. He was effectively left ‘broke’ after buying a pricey boat. That sum of money surely still enables him to buy a light bulb without breaking the bank!
