Bills /shared accounts &more with hubby??

Question

Hi ladies so i apologise this will be a bit of a long read, but i am curious to fimd out what all you do when it comes to sharing/splitting and paying bills rent etc with your partner/husband?
So in a couple weeks my partner and I will be getting our own place together, (at the moment i am renting a place and he just lives with me) but this next rental is going to be in  oth our names, we have pur first baby due in less than 2 weeks time.
So what i am curious to know is if you ladies think what my suggestion is for our bill paying is fair? 
And also id love to hear how you do yours too! 
Once we get a house this was my suggestion
My weekly pay is $600
His weekly pay is $1000
He pays for the weekly rent and own bills
v v v 
$400 weekly rent
$100 weekly fuel 
$120 his weekly car payment
$20 weekly phone bill
Leaves him with about $360 per week
(Please note i have a few extra things i am paying off)
I pay weekly groceries and utility bills
v v v 
$200 weekly groceries (roughly)
$50 weekly utility bills
$58 my weekly car repayment 
$20 weekly phone bill
$70 weekly fuel
$32 weekly loan repayment
Leaves me with $170 per week
What do you all think? Does this sound fair?

Answer

I will never understand why people in serious committed relationships/marriages don’t pool everything together. What’s mine is my husbands and what’s my husbands is mine. When I was working we both put all of our earnings together towards rent and bills. We share this life. We don’t live it separately in the same house. 
I know this sounds holier-than-thou and I apologize for that. 
You guys should put what you’re able to towards bills. If he’s okay with this then it’ll work. You guys have to find a solution together.

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That’s pretty much what we do. I’m the bread winner so I make sure the rent, gas/electric, water, cable/internet are paid. 
Plus I pay my own car loan, student loan, retirement loan, insurance, and Hulu.
He pays for groceries, car loan, insurance, gas, and 4 different credit cards
My paycheck is usually gone but he normally has almost 400 left so we take at least half of the for a joint savings account and the rest of what we have to use to splurge or pay like a medical bill if we have it.

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My husband and I had a joint bank account and put our money together and paid bills like that. Now he’s the sole provider and I just pay the bills with his check and that’s it. You will need to talk to him to see if it’s fair or not. He pays $400 for the rent and you pay about $250 for groceries and utilities for the house. The rest is your personal expenses. So if he’s ok with it then I see no issue.

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My husband is the sole provider so it’s a little different for us but basically I make sure all the bills are paid. Neither of us spend much on non necessary items and if we plan to we consult with one another. We have a joint account but honestly my husband has no idea about any of our finances. Like has no clue when bills are due or how much. I try to be transparent with him about it but he simply doesn’t care as long as it’s taken care of. I know this is not normal but has made my life easier lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

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My husband and I have split our finances from the start, but each of us has our own account/credit card in addition to the joint account. Our simple break down is this: each of us put half of our monthly income into the joint account and half into our personal accounts regardless of who makes more. All bills are paid with the joint account as well as groceries and we get to decided when and what to spend our personal half on. For example... if I want a date night with dinner and a movie- I pay for the both of us with my personal account. If he wants to go to the coast for a night and get a hotel- he pays with his personal account. This method has worked amazing for us. If we ever were unable to make ends meet with the 50/50 joint account we would reevaluate but having the freedom to spend how we wish provides a great feeling of independence. Some years I make more and take us on a week long vacation across the country... some years he makes more and buys us a washer/dryer.

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We have a joint account that we just put all of our money into it and pay what needs to be paid and then whatever is left over is left over.

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Half and half on everything we both use. I make more but we split insurance since both our cars are on it, we split rent, we put the same amount in our joint savings, groceries, stuff like that. We pay our OWN bills though-credit cards, cars, Spotify, Netflix, all that stuff that we should pay on our own since didn’t get it to share we got it for ourselves (doesn’t mean we can’t use each other stuff though)

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My husband is the sole provider as of now, and I take that and pay all the bills. He works outside of the home and I do the house duties and raise our daughter.

Bills /shared accounts &more with hubby??

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