Couples & households
Budgeting together with separate accounts, splitting shared bills, and keeping one picture of the money
Combining money
- How do we budget together when we have different savings goals?
- How do we calculate our combined net worth without counting joint accounts twice?
- How do we separate our finances after a breakup?
- How much personal spending money each partner gets, and how to set it
- How to combine finances when one of you has debt
- How to handle money when you move in together
- How to set up a joint account for shared bills, and what to route through it
- How to budget as a couple with separate accounts
- Yours, mine and ours, and the three ways couples combine money
Running the household
- How do we budget when an adult child moves back home?
- How much allowance should I give my teenager?
- How do we keep bills paid if the person who handles our money is unavailable?
- How to divide money tasks between partners so nothing gets dropped
- How to help a parent manage their money
- How to manage money with roommates, from shared bills to who pays
- What to do when your partner doesn't want to budget
- A monthly money check-in that takes twenty minutes
- How to share a budget without sharing logins
Shared expenses
- How do we split group trip costs when people stay different numbers of nights?
- How do we split bills when one partner owns the home?
- How do we split rent when one bedroom is bigger?
- How much money can I afford to give my parents each month?
- How to plan for living on one income for a while
- How to settle up shared expenses once a month instead of after every purchase
- How to split a big shared purchase, like furniture or a car
- How to track who paid what for shared expenses
- How to split shared bills fairly when incomes differ