Being newly engaged, I'm more and more encountering the process of joint decision making. My question to the rest of you is this:
Do you find it easier to change spending, or save as a single person, or as part of a couple? What are some of the advantages &/or unique challenges to each situation?
I find it is cheaper at times when buying groceries, but he doesn't always look for the best prices. It can also be difficult b/c financially we are of different mindsets, partly I think to do with the salary disparity, as even though he has larger debt payments, he also has a salary that's 50% larger than mine ( I make ~2/3 what he does). Slowly but surely though, he's coming on board and there's less of this:
and this
(me).