Never much cared for separate bank accounts etc in a marriage....but....

We did the separate check book thing for our first six months of marriage, then gave it up as our household budget seemed to be on autopilot, and we had no issues figuring out additional expenditures and savings, and making choices we both agreed to. During our graduate school days, first mine, later hers, we cut the expenses to the bone and figured out how much we would pull from loans and savings. When we were up and running, we worked out how much we would save (automatic deductions from payroll) every quarter. After 44 years of marriage, she told me to buy a Hemi GTX, and never blinked at the cost. These results are not typical. I appreciate what I've got, and unlike the car, she was my first.

YY1 said:

My wife wears exactly 2 jewelry items (OK technically-3) a pair of silver or gold hoop ear rings and her 1ct wedding ring.

She used have a belly button ring but doesn't any more.

She picked out the wedding ring and we mail ordered it from CA.

Paid $3,200, and six months later it appraised at two different places for 10K.

If she can find 'em like that, she should consider flipping them.

I believe I actually have more pair of shoes (four) than she does.

I believe she has two $10 flea market purses, and they are just big enough for her wallet, phone and one or two other items.

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My wife was a jeweler when we got back together in 86....but don't know if I mentioned we knew each other since 1970. Back then, Uncle Sam got me and since she wanted a way out of being at home with her mom etc, she married someone else after I left for Germany after begging me to marry her. Dang, I wasn't ready to marry anyone back then! Well, that should have been my first clue of what kind of person she was. Anyways, she quit working as a jeweler shortly after we got married and that alone made me wonder why. She didn't like the guy she was working for so....ok, why not work for somebody else then. One hurdle after another.......long story short I knew I forked up getting married to her and still wonder why I stuck with her for 31 years but don't wonder so much anymore. Heck, I wonder why she stuck with me so long either!! lol

68BabyBlue said:

We did the separate check book thing for our first six months of marriage, then gave it up as our household budget seemed to be on autopilot, and we had no issues figuring out additional expenditures and savings, and making choices we both agreed to. During our graduate school days, first mine, later hers, we cut the expenses to the bone and figured out how much we would pull from loans and savings. When we were up and running, we worked out how much we would save (automatic deductions from payroll) every quarter. After 44 years of marriage, she told me to buy a Hemi GTX, and never blinked at the cost. These results are not typical. I appreciate what I've got, and unlike the car, she was my first.

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that it how i got my S/C 360.... she knew i found one and just said get it and i don't remember her asking how much sense we had been saving for a trip to the black hills. .. said we can go to the black hills later.
i have had all 3 kind of wife's .... il keep the one i got. ... took me 48 years to find her.....lol

hacksaw said:

that it how i got my S/C 360.... she knew i found one and just said get it and i don't remember her asking how much sense we had been saving for a trip to the black hills. .. said we can go to the black hills later.
i have had all 3 kind of wife's .... il keep the one i got. ... took me 48 years to find her.....lol

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At 71, not sure if I'll find one......oh well. Not sure if I want to try a 3rd one unless she wants to bail me out for a change LOL

Cranky said:

At 71, not sure if I'll find one......oh well. Not sure if I want to try a 3rd one unless she wants to bail me out for a change LOL

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i wasn't looking. #2 kinda put me off anything past are you still here???.
even at 71 ya can have the rite one just show up out of thin air.... ya hart will tell ya.