Sofa not so Good

sheepsteeth

kaiser83 wrote:

do you split your mortgage and bills etc evenly?

All of the house bills are split proportionally, this means i choose to pay more but i earn more so it is fair, wife RE would prefer to pay 50:50 but i dont see equal as fair in this respect.

the way we do it is to take responsibility for the individual bills which need to be paid to cover the running of a home

we have our own debts and other bills to pay, those are our own business and we deal with them ourselves.

the rest of our money is our own to get spent, blown, wasted as we see fit.

at no point do we have a shared account or anything like that.

IcarusGreen

Myself and wife REME do have separate accounts and a joint one. We both put wage proportioned amounts into the joint account that pays for all the bills, savings, mortgage and food as I earn a lot more than her and she's sacrificed her career to follow me around the country and move very 18 to 24 months (sheepsteeth will understand).

Anything we have left over is ours to spend on what we like - similar to sheepsteeth. We do negotiate our big spends such as cars, bikes and holidays. This has always worked well for us.

We also have two sofas, more than two glasses/mugs/plates etc and even a extra bed in the house (despite having no kids) as we have friends that come and visit, eat and drink and then stay over! Imagine that Fully-sprung.

Stevo_666

sheepsteeth wrote:

i wonder if im in a minority of people who have separate monies from their other halves? any of my mates who are married all share their money (by share, i mean they give their money to their wives and if they are lucky, they get some back from them if they are good)

Separate accounts all the way for us. She doesn't work so she has credit cards that are paid out of my account but there's always the threat of reducing the credit limits or cutting the feckers up if she starts pi$$ing cash up the wall

Don't want her seeing what I spend on the stuff I like...