re: Spinoff from the budget app thread. How do you handle accounts and payments with SO?

Ours is set up basically how you are saying you want to do it - would highly recommend that way:

Main "house" checking account in which both my and my wife's paychecks are direct deposited into

All bills are on autopay from the House Checking

Each have our own savings account

Each month we have a reoccurring deposit from the House Checking into each of our savings accounts and we can do anything we want with that money. She wants purses or I want guns or golf stuff, doesn't matter. Because we each have this account for our own play money, neither can get upset with the other about stupid purchases.

Married 10 years and have never had a major disagreement on money doing it this way