re: Married baws - how do y'all handle finances

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While everything is combined under the same bank, I manage it all. But the way we do it, and I believe it will work out in the long run, is at least 3 accounts, one for all the money to go into and pay bills out of, and then we each have a separate checking account where we effectively get an allowance to spend on whatever we want. That way if I buy something stupid, or she does, there's no argument over it.

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We also do this.

The only thing you have to watch is there are sometimes disagreements about what should could out of joint or personal. For example, wife wants to buy drapes for house. Joint or personal? Shoes? Make up? What about me buying food and beers when it's just me and bros? It gets hairy but we have worked it out