Comments on: Finances and Marriage http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/ Just a Girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fabulously Broke in the City http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15796 Fabulously Broke in the City Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:56:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15796 Living Almost Large: That's true.. honesty is key to everything. Living Almost Large: That’s true.. honesty is key to everything.

]]> By: Living Almost Large http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15789 Living Almost Large Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:44:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15789 It depends on the couple. There is no one size fits all answer. Some people can do seperate accounts completely for LIFE! I know a couple for 30+ years. Others have completely joint for 30+ years.<br/><br/>The BIGGEST thing is honesty in a relationship. Whether you have joint, 3 accounts, or seperate. <br/><br/>SHARING finances is key, but it doesn't have to be where you have to have 3 accounts, yours, mine, ours. It depends on the couple. There is no one size fits all answer. Some people can do seperate accounts completely for LIFE! I know a couple for 30+ years. Others have completely joint for 30+ years.

The BIGGEST thing is honesty in a relationship. Whether you have joint, 3 accounts, or seperate.

SHARING finances is key, but it doesn’t have to be where you have to have 3 accounts, yours, mine, ours.

]]> By: Fabulously Broke in the City http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15770 Fabulously Broke in the City Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:37:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15770 Mel: Wow :) I love how you two are on the same track in terms of how your money is being spent.. Mel: Wow :) I love how you two are on the same track in terms of how your money is being spent..

]]> By: Mel http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15759 Mel Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:13:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15759 So far, it's worked pretty well. Of course, we're still tweaking and adjusting things as they come up but for the most part, I like how things are going. <br/><br/>Fortunately, both my husband and I are savers not spenders. We might be old fashioned but we're somewhat anti-credit card (those things will just get you into trouble!) and we go by "don't spend more than you make." In fact, we were ending up with left over money after every month that my husband decided to put some of that in a money market account saying if it's just going to be sitting around for a rainy day, it might as well be drawing interest. So far, so good. So far, it’s worked pretty well. Of course, we’re still tweaking and adjusting things as they come up but for the most part, I like how things are going.

Fortunately, both my husband and I are savers not spenders. We might be old fashioned but we’re somewhat anti-credit card (those things will just get you into trouble!) and we go by “don’t spend more than you make.” In fact, we were ending up with left over money after every month that my husband decided to put some of that in a money market account saying if it’s just going to be sitting around for a rainy day, it might as well be drawing interest. So far, so good.

]]> By: Fabulously Broke in the City http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15755 Fabulously Broke in the City Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15755 Mel: I'm glad that you posted your example about how you handle your accounts. It's really motivating me to take charge of my accounts and proactively fix the problems lol<br/><br/>SavingDiva: Mine knows I spend money - he's there when I do it. But he's definitely more of the quality not quantity kind of guy, which is the attitude I'm turning towards. Mel: I’m glad that you posted your example about how you handle your accounts. It’s really motivating me to take charge of my accounts and proactively fix the problems lol

SavingDiva: Mine knows I spend money – he’s there when I do it. But he’s definitely more of the quality not quantity kind of guy, which is the attitude I’m turning towards.

]]> By: SavingDiva http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15751 SavingDiva Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15751 I'm definitely not ready to open my spending madness with my bf... I’m definitely not ready to open my spending madness with my bf…

]]> By: Mel http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/finances-and-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-15748 Mel Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:34:00 +0000 http://www.fabulouslybroke.com/2007/12/20/finances-and-marriage/#comment-15748 The joint account and each of us having our own "personal" account has worked well. We use the joint account for bills but if we want to go and buy something, we use our personal account and it seems to work fine. We save a certain amount from each paycheck and it goes into our individual accounts. Same with gift money (birthday, Xmas) etc. That goes into the personal account as well. Of course, I'm the biggest tightwad and my account has almost served as a savings account since I have a tendency to scrimp and not spend money so it's actually tripled in about a year and a half. The joint account and each of us having our own “personal” account has worked well. We use the joint account for bills but if we want to go and buy something, we use our personal account and it seems to work fine. We save a certain amount from each paycheck and it goes into our individual accounts. Same with gift money (birthday, Xmas) etc. That goes into the personal account as well. Of course, I’m the biggest tightwad and my account has almost served as a savings account since I have a tendency to scrimp and not spend money so it’s actually tripled in about a year and a half.

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