http://www.bluntmoney.com/setting-up-house/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bluntmoney.com/setting-up-house/comment-page-1/#comment-37978 Heather Wed, 21 May 2008 03:57:02 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/setting-up-house/#comment-37978 My advice to a new couple starting out is to maintain separate bank accounts. SO many marriages end in divorce these days and the number one thing that couples fight about is money. My husband and I had our own accounts from before we met and we kept them. We have completely different spending styles - I spend - he doesn't...so, it saves a lot of unneccessary anger...if I want to buy a new pair of shoes - no skin off of his back - and completely the opposite is true...when he went out and bought a new truck - I was only happy for him; not any of those other bad feelings that spouses sometimes get about big purchases....Anyway, that's my advice! My advice to a new couple starting out is to maintain separate bank accounts. SO many marriages end in divorce these days and the number one thing that couples fight about is money. My husband and I had our own accounts from before we met and we kept them. We have completely different spending styles – I spend – he doesn’t…so, it saves a lot of unneccessary anger…if I want to buy a new pair of shoes – no skin off of his back – and completely the opposite is true…when he went out and bought a new truck – I was only happy for him; not any of those other bad feelings that spouses sometimes get about big purchases….Anyway, that’s my advice!

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