• @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    202 months ago

    Something I did after getting married but wish I’d done all along:

    Two different accounts. (Three if married.) One for income and non-discretionary spending. One (per person) for “allowance”, which gets a set amount transferred from the main account every week.

    Keeps your essentials partitioned from the fun stuff, which keeps the essentials safe and the fun guilt-free. And it allows you to have a steady stream of allowance even if you only get a paycheck monthly or biweekly.

    • 🐝bownage [they/he]
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      72 months ago

      I’ve been doing that with my fiancee for 1.5 years now and I love it. There’s never any concern about either of our spending and we try to equalise our ‘allowance’ parts so that we both feel comfortable buying things for ourselves.

      I have to say though, that’s coming from a context where we both earn more than enough for upkeep -+ fun stuff. I can imagine this wouldn’t work if you’re trying to make ends meet every month.

    • @sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
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      22 months ago

      You’re better off. I had a DX7 for a little while. It was insanely complicated to program and I could never get it to do anything that didn’t sound like 80s cheese.

  • Janet
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    42 months ago

    oooooooooh ice cereal!