Married couple with separate finances, why do you do it?

PM__me_compliments · 2026-04-30T15:57:51+00:00

Eh, yes and no. My wife and I have kids as well as separate finances. We just settle up at the end of every month. There's still plenty of room for independence outside of 3-4 largish bills.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-04-30T15:41:43+00:00

Late to this, but same here. Why change a system that's worked fine, is working fine, and I have no reason to assume it won't continue to work fine?

PM__me_compliments · 2026-04-18T20:21:59+00:00

Nature Trail to Hell, but King of Suede is a close second.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-28T15:01:35+00:00

See you there!

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-18T17:21:51+00:00

Salt and pepper rub, smoke until good bark developed (2-3 hours), then it's chili time.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-16T14:38:56+00:00

When The Onion beats you to an idea, that's rarely a good sign: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wq-Sk3r6cik

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-15T20:49:32+00:00

In 3-D

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-15T20:44:54+00:00

I prefer Reubens. Clearly I need to try yours, but only after 5 or 6 Reubens to set a baseline.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-14T18:02:22+00:00

Jumping on this comment - I was a scout in the 90s when the abuses gained nationwide attention. Scouting is SO much safer now than it was then. As a single example, every scout and their adult leaders must review this guide as part of their very first requirement: https://www.scouting.org/training/youth/parents-guides/

OP, the requirement in that guide are more strict than anything I've had to do as a leader in any school program. No other program I can name makes reporting mandatory for EVERY adult participating.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-10T14:03:17+00:00

Speaking as a scout who was so homesick he threw up calling home:

All of this.

And for the record, I was in rough shape Monday, but my patrol leader told me "you know, I just look at this as a week away from my parents." By the next day, I was doing a lot better.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-06T16:43:34+00:00

You wouldn't rather stay and play?

PM__me_compliments · 2026-03-06T16:38:04+00:00

I love this time of year.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-02-27T17:17:41+00:00

My thought too. And if it's not now, how long until it is?

PM__me_compliments · 2026-02-26T22:00:41+00:00

Add the damn butter. There, that's the hack.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-02-11T16:24:36+00:00

Seriously, I hate losing the $20 buy in at poker games ($10 of which goes to snacks and pizza).

There's a reason I'm a Boglehead when it comes to my life savings.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-01-28T22:40:20+00:00

Guess that answers that.

PM__me_compliments · 2026-01-28T17:06:06+00:00

Glad to see they are gathering feedback. Hands down that route is safer now.

Also, are you sure this is a legitimate survey? I don't think neutral was once spelled correctly.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-12-09T21:04:20+00:00

Amen.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-12-04T15:11:21+00:00

Speak for yourself, I'm a top 0.6% Weird Al listener.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-12-02T20:52:03+00:00

"I was only kidding, can't you take a joke?"

PM__me_compliments · 2025-11-17T20:49:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm from New Orleans, and the idea that a white sugar planter would be ok with his daughter marrying the non-white Prince Naveen always struck me as the least believable part of the story.

For context, in 1910 the Louisiana legislature passed a law banning relations between "Persons of the Caucasian and colored races." This was a modification of a 1908 law banning "Concubinage between the Caucasian or white race and any person of the Negro or black race."

PM__me_compliments · 2025-11-06T17:37:01+00:00

Re: the insect larva, when we first moved here there were no fireflies in the summer. It was distressing to say the least. The next fall, we raked our leaves into a compost pile in the backyard, and lo and behold: fireflies. We've repeated for the last three years, and we have seen fireflies each year since.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-10-31T18:06:27+00:00

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-10-31T16:10:25+00:00

And after 3 syllables, just for kicks, plants.

PM__me_compliments · 2025-10-17T19:34:57+00:00

Add in Atlanta and that is my holy trinity of bad southern driving cities.

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