re: Budgets - Some questions

I strongly advocate mint.
My wife never looks at the site but respects it enough when I tell her we have x dollars left in a category.

The major benefit of mint is just realizing how much you spend on certain things. Before mint, we didn't realize how much we were spending on eating out. We still eat out a lot, but it's helped us reel it in a good bit.

We each have our personal slush fund to spend as we see fit. Works well b/c I don't get bitched at for spending money on golf or dumb toys, and she doesn't ever get shite for shopping.

Except for personal spending, all our other budgets are together.. We have "amusement" for things we do together, Home improvement for things for house and yar, etc.