Comments on: Avoiding the “I” in Joint Finances

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:24:03 +0000

I have really enjoyed this post so even though you posted well over a month ago, I’ll still comment. My boyfriend and I live together and we plan to marry within the next five years. We have established a joint household account and each have our own separate accounts (I have four, he has three). Since I love thinking about and researching budgeting, investing and personal finance I’m assumed the postion of chief household budgeter but already I can see myself doing things like saying “I’l transfer x” not “we can transfer x” and not helping him to understand and get used to the banking process at our joint account (where I have my two main personal accounts). So your post has been very eye-opening for me and I really appreciate it!

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By: 3 Things About Money

3 Things About Money — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:14:00 +0000

Thanks for this post…we are still having issues moving into an “our” approach, primarily because of our very differing views on spending (I’m the budget babe) so we split everything 50/50 on joint expenses. I’d like to move beyond that, but well, it keeps the resentment down. It’s an ongoing conversation. Anyway, thanks.

By: Tiredbuthappy

Tiredbuthappy — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:00 +0000

Thanks for this post. It sounds like you’re making progress.

We combined finances in a similar, limited way. We each still have personal accounts that don’t get added to very much, and most of our ongoing income and savings goes into joint ventures.

When we bought our house, instead of each of us putting all our savings into it, we each put in the same percentage of our total savings. I put up more because I had more money to begin with.