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Here's what my girlfriend and I do when it comes to finances. (And don't let the term 'girlfriend' throw you off, we own a house together and are pretty much married, but we have no plans to ever enter into a marriage contract if we can help it.) Anyway.... We each have our own personal bank accounts. Our salary gets put into our own personal accounts. We also have a joint checking and joint savings account. Every pay period we each put an equal amount of money into the joint checking account. All joint bills get paid out of that account: mortgage, water, electricity, gas, cable, etc. Anything left over gets put into joint savings. We each are then left with our own money in our personal accounts to do whatever we want with. We each pay for our own cell phone bills, she pays for her vehicle with her money, I pay for mine with my money, etc. This situation has allowed us to greatly minimize the amount of arguments over money. As long as she meets her joint financial obligations, then I don't give a shite if she goes out and spends the rest of her money on clothes. So my point is....why don't you implement something like this?

I have never been a fan of couples having seperate accounts and claiming "my money/your money," but this is the best method I have seen for people who do have seperate accounts. Props to you!!!

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Posted by tirebiter

7K R&G chile land aka SF

Member since Oct 2006

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Posted on 7/27/09 at 5:37 pm to Zach

Sounds like a win/win for both spouses. Now about that VW EOS my wife still wants, that would not make me happy, chick car if I ever saw one.

We have had very good experiences with 2 Maxima's and a Pathfinder, the engines are great and seem to get better with age and require very little maintenance.

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