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[quote=Anonymous]All the money goes into one pot.  One joint checking, one joint savings, joint credit cards.  I pay all of the bills out of those pots and also monitor both of our retirement accounts.  I like the concept of everything being "ours" instead of some things being owned by one person.

I make almost twice what he makes, but this is the only way we would ever set things up as a married couple.  It is SO stressful to have to account for the fairness of every purchase with separate accounts.  "I paid for the last thing so you should pay for this." or "the groceries you want are more expensive than the groceries I want."  Nobody needs the constant accounting of fairness.  You don't want that kind of resentment in a marriage.  We did that before we were married, and I am so glad it's over.

We thought about having individual accounts to put a little bit of free money, but we don't really need that.  We just spend it out of the joint account and talk to each other if it's going to be more than $50.  [/quote]

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