Comments on: Marriage and Money: Questions for Young Couples

By: William

William — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:51:11 +0000

I like to think that paying the bills and holding a budget is a vital part of any marriage. I also recognize that it is most important to realize that not only paying the bills and keeping a budget to keep food and shelter handy. But also to pay attention to each others lives and enjoyments. I think that utilizing existing “love bank” to ensure your love doesn’t go completely money driven is important too. You can keep life simple and still enjoy an evening or do favors for each other. I like to show a way to surprise that unexpected lover with a simple but effective gift. Check into sending an I Love You Bill. Go and see if you like to at http://iloveyoubills.com If anything you can get some good ideas to try and maybe even make someones day.

By: Liliana

Liliana — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:10:24 +0000

Thank you very much, Matt! We talked about this and I read all that have been said about this topic on this site and we decided to have two separed equal budgets for gifts (not necessarily in a bank account) and each of us can spend his amount when he decides keeping in mind that the budget is made for a six months period. For gifts we make for other people we simply take money from our common account and we plan that ahead from our monthly budget. Thank you again! I’ll keep reading this site for other topics considering that today our parents met eachother.

By: Matt Bell

Matt Bell — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:24:59 +0000

Liliana – I’d recommend two things. First, use a budget and make sure you have a budgeted amount for gifts. You could actually have several gift budgets – one that you use to buy him gifts, one that he uses to buy you gifts, and one that you both use to buy other people gifts. When you want to buy him a gift, simply withdraw your budgeted amount and buy the gift. Since you withdrew cash instead of writing a check or using a debit card to buy the gift, he won’t know where you bought the gift, making it easy to surprise him.
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By: Liliana

Liliana — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:55:26 +0000

My boyfriend and I, live together with his parents and we will get married at some point but for now we have other priorities. I am 23 and he’s 25 and we both have decent jobs in our country and earn a little over minimum wage (witch is what most people her earn). We have a joint account and that works very well for us and we also manage to help his parents a little with their debt problems. The only problem I have is that we don’t know what should we do when it comes to birthday/christmas gifts and so on. We both like surprises and surprising eachother but with a joint account we don’t know how to do it. We only have a joint account for a few months and we don’t know how to do it. Could you help us?

By: Mollee

Mollee — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:20:15 +0000

(I’ll definitely be reading on here more often, too… what a great site!)