May 16, 2025 • 13 mins
The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Friday, May 16th, 2025: "He's Hiding Money In Our Raggedy House"
A woman writes in because she has been waiting for her husband to keep his promise and make improvements to their house. Then, she caught him with an envelope of cash that he's been hiding from her. There's a lot more to the story though, and you're gonna want to hear Steve & Shirley's responses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve BRBFM. All you
have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter, and we
could be reading your letter live on the air, just
like we're going to read this one right here, right now,
and it might be yours. You never know, could be it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Could be yours. Buckle up, hold on typ We got
a point you here. It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you nephew. Subject he's hiding money in our raggedy house.
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty nine year old married
woman and my husband is fifty nine. We've been married
for six years and this is my first marriage and
his second. We dated a good while before he asked
me to marry him, and when I accepted his proposal,
I told him that I didn't want to live in
(00:47):
the house that he and his wife and kids lived in.
He rented out his house and we bought a fixer
upper house in a great neighborhood. I wanted a new house,
or at least one that was in great condition. He
promised me that he had some great contractors that would
make my dream a reality. The house is so old
that we still have linoleum tie linoleum tiles on the
(01:09):
kitchen floor. I contacted a professional company to get a
flooring estimate, and I wanted to replace all the laminate
countertops in the kitchen. It had been six years, and
I saved up money to do a few little things.
He hemmed and hawed, but he eventually helped me pick
out our flooring. He didn't offer to help me pay
for anything, because he said it was my impatience that
(01:33):
led to the renovation. A few weeks later, we were
packing up to go to my parents' home temporarily while
our floors are getting installed, and I just happened to
be peeking in at him in the bedroom. He carefully
pulled out a big envelope, pulled a big envelope out
of a shoe box, and I saw hundreds of dollars.
I ran into the room and tackled him and grabbed
(01:55):
the envelope. All he could say is that he had
to keep a stash because I love spending his money.
I don't know how he thought it was okay to
hide this large sum money from me. I'm wondering if
he planned to leave me in this raggedy house. Is
that why he's not interested in doing any upgrades? What
is he up to? Well, before we get to that,
(02:18):
I just got to say the visual of you busting
in the bedroom and tackling your husband, but it's just
a little funny. Okay, that visual is funny, And I
mean you asked the question what is he up to?
Who knows what mister secretive is up to? And why
is he being so shady with his money? I'm all
for having all for having your own money and not
(02:40):
having to always ask someone your husband in this case,
for cash, and of course there's also the house money
and the bill money. But just something about this doesn't
sit well with me. I mean, first, you say, it's
been six years since you've been in this fixer upper
and nothing has been fixed up. And didn't you all
so say that you saved the money yourself with no
(03:02):
help from your husband. He said it was your impatience
that led to the renovation. I don't understand that statement.
What is he talking about. It's been six years since
you guys have been in that house and nothing has
been done. I mean it is his house too. He
seems like he would want it remodel. I mean, especially
the linoleum floors. You know, the only explanation he had
(03:27):
for stashing is that you love to spend his money.
His money, I mean, it's our money. You guys are married.
You know you're spending money on the house. You saved
the money for the house. Is he trying to say,
if you knew he had the secret money, you would
have spent that on the house or something else. I'm
(03:49):
so confused with that statement. I mean, what is his
stash money for if it's not for the house. He
sounds just very cheap to me, very selfish to me.
And he doesn't have any into tensions after six years
of fixing this house up, I don't see that. So,
so now that you know you've caught him with this money,
you need you need to find out what he's up to.
(04:11):
We don't know what he's up to. Insists you know,
if you guys are going to stay married on a
joint bank account for the house, for the renovations, it's
been six years, let's go. You know, both of you
should be contributing, not just you. Uh, it's his house too,
and it's his chievement, is his cheapness? Why his first
marriage fails? These are some of the questions you need.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To ask him.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If you find out the answers to this, maybe you'll
find out what you know the money he stashed is
all about. Other than that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
This is crazy. You know he needs your you need
his help, Steve.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I don't know about this letter right here. I'm a
little bit throwing off. See he's had money in our
raggedy house. But the name of this letter to me
is somebody learning flash. We ain't hearing the whole truth.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See, we're just not hearing this whole story. I don't
think because something is missing in this story. It don't
set right with me. But you know, one of Uncle
Steve's favorite things to do at one of my skill
sets is to dig under the surface to find out
(05:26):
what's really going on. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go under
the skinIn to find out what's going on. Now, she
forty nine, She her husband is fifty nine. That's a
ten year difference. Been married six years, my first marriage,
his second. M that's a little telltale right there. This
(05:47):
is your first time he didn't done this before. He's
seen the movie before. In other words, we dated a
good while before he asked me to marry him. When
I accepted his proposal, I told him I didn't want
to live in the house that he and his wife
and kids lived in. So guess what he did. He
rented out his house. He honored that request. That was
(06:08):
a big one. This man already owned the house, but
you didn't want to live there, he said. Cool. He
rented out the house and he bought a fixer upper
house in a great neighborhood. I wanted a new house,
or at least one. Dad was in great condition. He
promised me that he had some great contractors and he
would make my dreams of reality. The house is so old.
We got linoleum tiles on the kitchen floor. I contracted
(06:30):
a professional company to get a flowing estimate. I wanted
to replace all the lemoned countertops in the kitchen. And
after this, I'll tell you what happened. Why you ain't
got no kitchen.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In all right? Steve hold On, Part two of your
responses coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour
Today's Strawberry Letters subject He's hiding money in our raggedy house.
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
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to talk to you about something. I think it's pretty cool.
PayPal lets you pay your own way with just a click.
PayPal offers people flexibility on how they can pay. Once
you click the PayPal button, you can choose from a
bunch of payment options like paying later with PayPal at
(07:20):
millions of online stores, pay in store, pay online, pay overtime,
don't just pay PayPal. Learn more at PayPal dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters.
Subject he's hiding money in a raggedy house.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, yeah, hiding money you raggedy house. Because we don't
know the whole story. But you've been married now for
six years. Hell, he rented out the house. You told
him you didn't want to live in with his former
wife and kids had so he rented it out, as
a good husband would doing. He bought a fixer upper.
You kind of wanted a new house. He told you
that he has some friends and stuff and he get
it fixed up. Well, you wanted it. He said he
(08:01):
had some contractors and the house is so old that
y'all got linoleum floors on the kitchen, so you contact
a professional, come to get a floor next min And
I want to replace all the laminate countertops. It's been
six years. I've saved up money to do a few
little things. He hemmed and hard, but he eventually helped
(08:21):
me pick out the flooring. He didn't offer to help
me to pay for anything, because he said it was
my impatience that led to the renovation. Now less, it's
where the letter gets tricky. It's your impatience that led
to the renovation or was it his lie that led
to you having to save up to get the renovation?
(08:44):
See now we're about to peel back some of the
skin on this onion right here and put tears in
your eyes. I think it's because of the fact that
he's been married before, and you ain't he seen this
movie before. Now you're telling me that you've been saving
up a little bit of money for this laminated flo right,
and he wasn't gonna go for that. Whose kitchen is
that big? How much that flow costs? So I don't
(09:06):
know how much you had to save. But it's a
kitchen flow. I don't know what you saved on my
passing judgment. I don't like to do that, but you
saved up your little bit of money. But we talking
six years though, So what have you been doing and
what have y'all been doing with the money for six years? See,
(09:27):
you've been buying something, and I think you may be
buying some stuff that ain't got nothing to do with nothing.
And he saw his money slipping away like he did
with his previous wife, so he started stashing money before
she get our hands on this right here too. That's
what I think happened, you know. And then I see,
(09:48):
here's what led me to say that. A few weeks later,
we were packing up to go to my parents' home
temporarily while your flaws were getting installed, which means the
floors was in the process of getting done, right, I
just have to be peeking in at him in the bedroom,
he carefully pulled a big envelope out of a shoe box,
(10:10):
and I saw hundreds of dollars. You, being the gold
digger that you are, ran into the room and tackled
and grabbed the envelope. Dove on the man Now he
was surprised because obviously you blindsided him. He didn't see
it coming. He make his head jerk back slab or
wrapped around his head a little bit. He didn't know
what was happening because you tackled him in his lower back.
(10:32):
Because he had that envelope down low count that money.
All he could say is he had to keep a
stash because I love spending his money. That's the key. See,
for six years, he been watching you spend money on
all types of stuff. Now you come up, but you
on a floor. Now this man going away? Manute man,
Hold up, I've been chipping in. We've been doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Here.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You got me renting out this house that I already
paid for. Now you over here. We were trying to
do something else, but you just spending money. You mess
around after six years and save the money for the flow,
and now you in here tackling me for cash. See
how they look. He thought it was okay. I don't
know how he thought it was okay to hide this
(11:14):
large sum of money for me. I do because he
didn't want you to spend it. That's why he was
hiding it. I'm wondering if he planned to leave me
in this raggedy house. Is that why he's not interested
in doing any upgrades? What's he up to? Well, it
seemed to me like he's up to what you ain't
up to, trying to save a little bit of money
(11:37):
because he said you'd be spending all his money. And
a man will do that. A man will hide some
money if he thinks you're gonna spend it all. Every
man I know has done it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What about the line about her impatience led to the renovation?
What does that mean? They've been in the house for
six years and they still haven't gotten it renovated.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I said when I read the letter, I don't think
it's her impatience that's led to the renovation. More it
is his lie that led to her wanting to do
the rest of renovation. The woman got every right to
want to fix her house up. Most women like living
in nice homes, and it's a representative of a woman
when people come over your house and your house ain't right,
(12:19):
the woman takes the blame for that, not the man.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Thank you, girl.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What's she in here doing? How she got all this food?
And how she who decorated this right here? What's she
she tripped. I understand what that's not her fault. He
lied and said he was gonna fix the house up.
But what happened was as he was trying to save,
he was just watching her spend. So now, hold up,
(12:45):
I can't take what I'm saving and renovate this house
because she spending all the other money. Let me save
some of this money, which would I be spending on
renovating the house. But since she spending all the money,
we ain't gonna have no money. That's how she found
him hiding the money in the envelope. But now she
didn't manage to save up a little bit of money
to get this flow done after six years. But he
(13:06):
got to flow money in that box. He got to
float money and wall money in the box. I think
what happened here is we have a spending problem which
leads to more divorces financed than even infidelity. And y'all
will get you will get left in that ragged house
if you keep spending money like that. Holding letters. Your
fault made.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
He needs to help her fix up that house, all right,
so she can make him a home. Please leave your
comments on Today's Strawberry.
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Speaker 2 (13:49):
The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve BRBFM. All you
have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter, and we
could be reading your letter live on the air, just
like we're going to read this one right here, right now,
and it might be yours. You never know, could be it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Could be yours. Buckle up, hold on typ We got
a point you here. It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you nephew. Subject he's hiding money in our raggedy house.
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty nine year old married
woman and my husband is fifty nine. We've been married
for six years and this is my first marriage and
his second. We dated a good while before he asked
me to marry him, and when I accepted his proposal,
I told him that I didn't want to live in
(00:47):
the house that he and his wife and kids lived in.
He rented out his house and we bought a fixer
upper house in a great neighborhood. I wanted a new house,
or at least one that was in great condition. He
promised me that he had some great contractors that would
make my dream a reality. The house is so old
that we still have linoleum tie linoleum tiles on the
(01:09):
kitchen floor. I contacted a professional company to get a
flooring estimate, and I wanted to replace all the laminate
countertops in the kitchen. It had been six years, and
I saved up money to do a few little things.
He hemmed and hawed, but he eventually helped me pick
out our flooring. He didn't offer to help me pay
for anything, because he said it was my impatience that
(01:33):
led to the renovation. A few weeks later, we were
packing up to go to my parents' home temporarily while
our floors are getting installed, and I just happened to
be peeking in at him in the bedroom. He carefully
pulled out a big envelope, pulled a big envelope out
of a shoe box, and I saw hundreds of dollars.
I ran into the room and tackled him and grabbed
(01:55):
the envelope. All he could say is that he had
to keep a stash because I love spending his money.
I don't know how he thought it was okay to
hide this large sum money from me. I'm wondering if
he planned to leave me in this raggedy house. Is
that why he's not interested in doing any upgrades? What
is he up to? Well, before we get to that,
(02:18):
I just got to say the visual of you busting
in the bedroom and tackling your husband, but it's just
a little funny. Okay, that visual is funny, And I
mean you asked the question what is he up to?
Who knows what mister secretive is up to? And why
is he being so shady with his money? I'm all
for having all for having your own money and not
(02:40):
having to always ask someone your husband in this case,
for cash, and of course there's also the house money
and the bill money. But just something about this doesn't
sit well with me. I mean, first, you say, it's
been six years since you've been in this fixer upper
and nothing has been fixed up. And didn't you all
so say that you saved the money yourself with no
(03:02):
help from your husband. He said it was your impatience
that led to the renovation. I don't understand that statement.
What is he talking about. It's been six years since
you guys have been in that house and nothing has
been done. I mean it is his house too. He
seems like he would want it remodel. I mean, especially
the linoleum floors. You know, the only explanation he had
(03:27):
for stashing is that you love to spend his money.
His money, I mean, it's our money. You guys are married.
You know you're spending money on the house. You saved
the money for the house. Is he trying to say,
if you knew he had the secret money, you would
have spent that on the house or something else. I'm
(03:49):
so confused with that statement. I mean, what is his
stash money for if it's not for the house. He
sounds just very cheap to me, very selfish to me.
And he doesn't have any into tensions after six years
of fixing this house up, I don't see that. So,
so now that you know you've caught him with this money,
you need you need to find out what he's up to.
(04:11):
We don't know what he's up to. Insists you know,
if you guys are going to stay married on a
joint bank account for the house, for the renovations, it's
been six years, let's go. You know, both of you
should be contributing, not just you. Uh, it's his house too,
and it's his chievement, is his cheapness? Why his first
marriage fails? These are some of the questions you need.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To ask him.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If you find out the answers to this, maybe you'll
find out what you know the money he stashed is
all about. Other than that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
This is crazy. You know he needs your you need
his help, Steve.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I don't know about this letter right here. I'm a
little bit throwing off. See he's had money in our
raggedy house. But the name of this letter to me
is somebody learning flash. We ain't hearing the whole truth.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See, we're just not hearing this whole story. I don't
think because something is missing in this story. It don't
set right with me. But you know, one of Uncle
Steve's favorite things to do at one of my skill
sets is to dig under the surface to find out
(05:26):
what's really going on. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go under
the skinIn to find out what's going on. Now, she
forty nine, She her husband is fifty nine. That's a
ten year difference. Been married six years, my first marriage,
his second. M that's a little telltale right there. This
(05:47):
is your first time he didn't done this before. He's
seen the movie before. In other words, we dated a
good while before he asked me to marry him. When
I accepted his proposal, I told him I didn't want
to live in the house that he and his wife
and kids lived in. So guess what he did. He
rented out his house. He honored that request. That was
(06:08):
a big one. This man already owned the house, but
you didn't want to live there, he said. Cool. He
rented out the house and he bought a fixer upper
house in a great neighborhood. I wanted a new house,
or at least one. Dad was in great condition. He
promised me that he had some great contractors and he
would make my dreams of reality. The house is so old.
We got linoleum tiles on the kitchen floor. I contracted
(06:30):
a professional company to get a flowing estimate. I wanted
to replace all the lemoned countertops in the kitchen. And
after this, I'll tell you what happened. Why you ain't
got no kitchen.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In all right? Steve hold On, Part two of your
responses coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour
Today's Strawberry Letters subject He's hiding money in our raggedy house.
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
This broadcasts by PayPal. I want to take a second
to talk to you about something. I think it's pretty cool.
PayPal lets you pay your own way with just a click.
PayPal offers people flexibility on how they can pay. Once
you click the PayPal button, you can choose from a
bunch of payment options like paying later with PayPal at
(07:20):
millions of online stores, pay in store, pay online, pay overtime,
don't just pay PayPal. Learn more at PayPal dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters.
Subject he's hiding money in a raggedy house.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, yeah, hiding money you raggedy house. Because we don't
know the whole story. But you've been married now for
six years. Hell, he rented out the house. You told
him you didn't want to live in with his former
wife and kids had so he rented it out, as
a good husband would doing. He bought a fixer upper.
You kind of wanted a new house. He told you
that he has some friends and stuff and he get
it fixed up. Well, you wanted it. He said he
(08:01):
had some contractors and the house is so old that
y'all got linoleum floors on the kitchen, so you contact
a professional, come to get a floor next min And
I want to replace all the laminate countertops. It's been
six years. I've saved up money to do a few
little things. He hemmed and hard, but he eventually helped
(08:21):
me pick out the flooring. He didn't offer to help
me to pay for anything, because he said it was
my impatience that led to the renovation. Now less, it's
where the letter gets tricky. It's your impatience that led
to the renovation or was it his lie that led
to you having to save up to get the renovation?
(08:44):
See now we're about to peel back some of the
skin on this onion right here and put tears in
your eyes. I think it's because of the fact that
he's been married before, and you ain't he seen this
movie before. Now you're telling me that you've been saving
up a little bit of money for this laminated flo right,
and he wasn't gonna go for that. Whose kitchen is
that big? How much that flow costs? So I don't
(09:06):
know how much you had to save. But it's a
kitchen flow. I don't know what you saved on my
passing judgment. I don't like to do that, but you
saved up your little bit of money. But we talking
six years though, So what have you been doing and
what have y'all been doing with the money for six years? See,
(09:27):
you've been buying something, and I think you may be
buying some stuff that ain't got nothing to do with nothing.
And he saw his money slipping away like he did
with his previous wife, so he started stashing money before
she get our hands on this right here too. That's
what I think happened, you know. And then I see,
(09:48):
here's what led me to say that. A few weeks later,
we were packing up to go to my parents' home
temporarily while your flaws were getting installed, which means the
floors was in the process of getting done, right, I
just have to be peeking in at him in the bedroom,
he carefully pulled a big envelope out of a shoe box,
(10:10):
and I saw hundreds of dollars. You, being the gold
digger that you are, ran into the room and tackled
and grabbed the envelope. Dove on the man Now he
was surprised because obviously you blindsided him. He didn't see
it coming. He make his head jerk back slab or
wrapped around his head a little bit. He didn't know
what was happening because you tackled him in his lower back.
(10:32):
Because he had that envelope down low count that money.
All he could say is he had to keep a
stash because I love spending his money. That's the key. See,
for six years, he been watching you spend money on
all types of stuff. Now you come up, but you
on a floor. Now this man going away? Manute man,
Hold up, I've been chipping in. We've been doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Here.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You got me renting out this house that I already
paid for. Now you over here. We were trying to
do something else, but you just spending money. You mess
around after six years and save the money for the flow,
and now you in here tackling me for cash. See
how they look. He thought it was okay. I don't
know how he thought it was okay to hide this
(11:14):
large sum of money for me. I do because he
didn't want you to spend it. That's why he was
hiding it. I'm wondering if he planned to leave me
in this raggedy house. Is that why he's not interested
in doing any upgrades? What's he up to? Well, it
seemed to me like he's up to what you ain't
up to, trying to save a little bit of money
(11:37):
because he said you'd be spending all his money. And
a man will do that. A man will hide some
money if he thinks you're gonna spend it all. Every
man I know has done it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What about the line about her impatience led to the renovation?
What does that mean? They've been in the house for
six years and they still haven't gotten it renovated.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I said when I read the letter, I don't think
it's her impatience that's led to the renovation. More it
is his lie that led to her wanting to do
the rest of renovation. The woman got every right to
want to fix her house up. Most women like living
in nice homes, and it's a representative of a woman
when people come over your house and your house ain't right,
(12:19):
the woman takes the blame for that, not the man.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Thank you, girl.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What's she in here doing? How she got all this food?
And how she who decorated this right here? What's she
she tripped. I understand what that's not her fault. He
lied and said he was gonna fix the house up.
But what happened was as he was trying to save,
he was just watching her spend. So now, hold up,
(12:45):
I can't take what I'm saving and renovate this house
because she spending all the other money. Let me save
some of this money, which would I be spending on
renovating the house. But since she spending all the money,
we ain't gonna have no money. That's how she found
him hiding the money in the envelope. But now she
didn't manage to save up a little bit of money
to get this flow done after six years. But he
(13:06):
got to flow money in that box. He got to
float money and wall money in the box. I think
what happened here is we have a spending problem which
leads to more divorces financed than even infidelity. And y'all
will get you will get left in that ragged house
if you keep spending money like that. Holding letters. Your
fault made.
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