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[quote=Anonymous]I think success around money has much more to do with attitude than how you organize it. If you have the same approach to money and communicate well, you can set it up pretty much any way you want. All of our checking accounts are held jointly, but there are some that I use more and some he uses more. We divide the expenses in a way that makes sense, proportional to our income. He pays for certain things (mortgage, some utilities, etc.), and I pay for certain things (school tuition, travel, groceries, other household expenses such furniture, cell phone bill, etc). If a big expense comes up that we weren't expecting, we discuss & agree on which account we're going to pay it out of. We have never once sat down and figured out if how we divide things up is exactly fair. It feels fair to us, primarily because we still see all of it as being "our" money, and who pays for what is really more of a functional question. [/quote]
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