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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
But Q: ultimately isn't the allowance the crucial element here?
You can call the percentages whatever your want but at the end of the day the bills need to be paid in full and there has to be the ability to have one's own discretionary spending money.
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There are really two issues here.
1. You want to try and evenly split the joint expenses as fairly as possible. In the end, the only difference between the two methods is accountability. In the method above, I can tell you that Person B paid $31.32 for their share of the cable.
2. The system above works for varying level of commitments.
When you first move in with someone, you usually don't rush to go and put all your money in joint accounts. And until there is a permanent commitment between the couple, I wouldn't expect my SO to give me money from their pocket to add to my personal spending money.
Hopefully all that changes over time, you get married or whatever. At that point, I really don't think it would be fair for one person to have more spending money, even if they do make more. At that time, things do get pooled together; you become a team... it becomes "our" money.
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Originally Posted by abaya
I feel like we've digressed.
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Oops.. ya, I think we have bigtime!
