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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the most important thing is that both people think of the money as all going into one big family pot, even if it is in fact going into many separate pots that may or may not have both partners' names on them.  Figure out what accounting method works best for you both, but never forget that you are a team and what's yours is theirs and vice versa.[/quote]

Our accounting has evolved.  When we were engaged we opened a joint account for the wedding.  I can't remember if we split bills or DH put the equivalent of rent into the wedding savings account.  Then once married we added each other to the credit cards but treated the legacy cards as our own.  What ended up happening is most credit card purchases end up on DH's card and ones that are his gifts or I don't want him to comment end up on my CC.  We also ended up adding each other to accounts once we had kids but we don't really monitor each other's account other than noting if the minimum we like to keep in the account gets too low or is getting high enough to transfer to joint savings. In the end it is all family money but we use various accounting and it keeps both of us responsible for budgeting and paying certain bills.[/quote]

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