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Originally Posted by kork13

I always laugh when this topic comes up (which it does every couple months)... As evidenced by all the responses so far, it really just depends on the couple, and what works for them.

As for myself, I'm not married yet, but looking forward, I think my preferred method would be to be mostly joint (both paychecks go to joint accounts for paying all the bills and family expenses), but also have personal accounts for each to use as a discretionary account. Funded by an agreed-upon "allowance" from the joint accounts, they'd be there for your personal pleasures, whatever that might be -- day at the spa for one, a set of golf clubs for the other.

But as I said, not married yet, so we'll see what really happens later on. However, this is largely similar to what my parents have done for their entire marriage, and it seems to work fairly well for them.

this is exactly what the wife and I do. It works well for us.