Mama Tee Series - When Men Shop

Is there something wrong with a man going to the market?

Personally, I hate going to the market to buy foodstuff, I only do it when I don't have a choice. I also hate going to shop for electrical gadgets including phones. I don't know how to buy the original ones and also don't know how to haggle price well.
The only items I love shopping for are clothes, shoes, bags, jewelries, you know na. Lol

So I would appreciate if I had a man who would do the market runs in the house.

Now, why is my cousin always complaining about her husband buying everything in the house by himself including children stuff and foodstuff? He knows all the kids shoe sizes and cloth sizes. The only stuff that my cousin shops for are the things she wears. She buys the things she wears herself and when she brings them home, he would complain that she did not price them well. Lols.


The man said he doesn't want her to stress herself, let her relax at home when she is not at work but the woman said the man is stingy. He doesn't want her to have any excess change that is why he doesn't give her money to buy stuff in the house and on rare occasions when he does, he writes down everything and calculates their prices and gives her the exact cash to buy them. She said most times, she adds her own money as the prices of some stuff would be slightly higher than what he wrote. Hahahah

She also said If he really cares about her, he should be helping out with house chores instead. She said this man cannot even arrange his clothes well in the wardrobe yet he doesn't want her to stress herself. He doesn't help out with anything inside the house. All he does is to complain and nag. Hahahahahaha


He knows the prices of everything in the market - bag of rice(big rice and tiny rice) hahahahaha, bag of garri(white and yellow), paint rubber of beans, 10kg and 5kg bags of semovita, palm oil, groundnut oil in gallons and bottles, the quantity of #500 worth of tomatoes and pepper, the no of pieces of 5k meat, 2k meat and 1k meat, body and hair cream, soap, prices of different school bags and lunch bags, shoes, socks, etc. Hahahahaha.


She also said he knows how much they make the kids hair too because he follows her to the salon sometimes. Lols
She said anytime she uses her own money to buy anything, her husband will admonish her that it is too expensive and that she is wasting money as he would buy it for a lesser amount.


My people, she cries sometimes while telling me and I will just be wondering why she is crying. She has her own money too and they both contribute to the home. Sometimes, she pays school fees while the husband takes care of other things, so why cry because he doesn't allow you to stress yourself?

I have told her that she should face the house chores or pay someone to come and be doing them everyday and allow the husband to do the market runs for peace to reign. Abi how una see my advice? What the man is doing, is it a bad thing?