Miss Cupcake, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Construction Project Manager
Engagement Date: February 10, 2007
Wedding Date: September, 2008
Blogging Since: December 7, 2007
Venue: The Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA
About Me: Mr. Cupcake and I hit it off at a Halloween party and immediately began a long-distance relationship. After two years, he moved to my neck of the woods, and a year and a half after that, he proposed at the “place we fell in love.” I am a true perfectionist who enjoys designing and creating more work for myself, so wedding planning is my perfect outlet. Mr. Cupcake and I are both old souls, and we hope to weave that aspect of our personalities into our wedding day.
Bet Your Bottom Dollar
May 27th, 2008 @ 9:30 am by Miss Cupcake
Every couple has their mini-fights and debates, there’s no doubt about that. Mr. Cupcake and I are no exception. We are both fairly competitive and we hate being proven wrong, so we’ve had our share of intense debates and disagreements over mundane things.
Some of our debates come down to pop culture trivia (I pride myself in retaining a lot of useless information about everything pop culture, so you best know what you’re getting yourself into before you challenge me); other debates are over items on our shared Google calendar (”you never told me you are going to the Flyers game tomorrow night…” “yes I did, I told you last week, and I put it on the Google calendar”). There have been too many debates to count.
Our favorite solution to solving our debates? We bet each other a dollar. It may sound silly, but it works. every. time. We’ll go back and forth disagreeing about something for a minute, each stating our case and neither one budging, until one of us whips out the dollar bet. It’s like the “I double dog dare ya” of our relationship, except there are no tongues frozen to poles as a result.
The debate always ends with a handshake to seal the dollar bet, until we are able to consult the interweb for the correct answer (because, you know, the internet never lies!). That’s when the loser ultimately has to hand over a crisp green dollar bill to the winner. And I know it’s only one dollar, but when you win a dollar bet, it is more satisfying than you can imagine!
How do you and your FI deal with debates and disagreements? Do you have a “dollar bet” type of tradition with each other to keep things interesting and light-hearted?
10 Responses to “Bet Your Bottom Dollar”
Paper, Scissors, Rock. Always works.
I guess we sort of do something similar. Except that when we make a bet it usually involves buying each other dinner out at their choice of restaurant. Like a bet we currently have going that involves how much money Indiana Jones makes versus Sex and the City.
I think you can guess which side I’m on in that bet. 
Once we’re married in two months and our finances have become combined I don’t know if this bet will be as much fun but for now its just friendly competition and we both really end up winning.
ditto liz
Husband and I always do the dollar bet too! But I think we are playing that wrong because we never end up paying each other . . . we have had our zillions of silly disagreements that are solved with the dollar bet, but neither of us has ever attempted to pay up, LOL.
However, we also have a weekly gym work out calendar and if we don’t go 4 days per week we have to pay the other person $10. That one we do pay up on, and very rarely do either of us work out less than 4 times.
I definitely have to try that one!! 
We use rock, paper, scissor to decide many things… who’s taking the dog out in the rain, who’s making dinner, who’s driving on long road trips, where we’re going on our honeymoon….
we bet three kisses.
just like ktdid, we also use the rock, paper scissors method. Although the FI likes to throw in “2 out of 3″ or “5 out of 7″ when he loses
I try to ask myself “would you rather be right or happy?” and all of a sudden I don’t care who’s right any more… most of the time!
When it comes to who has to turn the light out at night or take out the trash we always use Rock Paper Scissors. It works wonders.
When it comes to: Is whole foods open on Memorial Day we bet. (PS - I was right, whole foods was open on memorial day)
