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Originally Posted by fredr123
That's how my wife and I roll too. Frankly, given her organizational skills with bill payments and expenses, it makes too much sense to just hand over my pay checks to her. She kind of gets on me for some of my spending habits and with only the one account, it's really easy for her to figure out where I spend my money. It would be nice to have even a small amount of scratch that I could blow as I see fit. Or the balls to stand up to her.
Buying gifts is weird now, for sure. "Here's something awesome I bought you with our money that you already knew about since you pay the bills and have access to our account. Happy birthday!" That's where credit cards help.
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That's totally us too. Except more often lately it seems to be "Remember how much money we spent on item X/Y/Z? (vacations, splurge purchases, etc.) Want that for your birthday? Good."