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Originally Posted by Rmtt
I have always done the finances in our house. I make 4X what my wife does, but we have one account and it's treated as "our" money.
I have always been a "numbers" guy. So after the month's expenses are paid, and we put what we want in savings, retirement, etc.....I put an amount on the whiteboard of the fridge that shows an estimate of what's left to spend as "extra".
She's fine with that as long as she see's a number to go by. That's what she uses for her Books, Art Stuff, other small things she wants.
Anything more than a certain amount, we typically discuss it.
But it's worked great.
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x2 never considered separate finances. I don’t have an amount we can each spend but we both know when times are tighter or when we need to discuss something after 20 years of marriage.