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I had thought this was par for the course but the wife refuses to open one.
Are there any other married people who don't have a joint account?
We have a joint account.
And I have my own one too.
Only have joint accounts (All with same bank) and a joint CC.
Don't understand the whole separate account thing and the need for them...whats mine is hers and vice versa.
we have personal current accounts and savings account and a joint current account and saving account. All our income is split evenly though, with enough going into the joint current to run the household, and an equal amount each goes into our personal accounts for us to do what we like with.
Never had one and thats now nearly 20 years
We're now like druidh, but for years and years we had our own separate accounts, these days we have a joint account which we both put the money for bills into, but to be honest it wouldn't really matter just having an account each.
Joint CC but no joint acc
Not only do we have seperate acounts, they are with different banks - always keep your money spread out - we even have a different bank for our savings...
We each have own accounts and then when both working each put money into that account for house, food and bills.
Separate bank accounts here. I don't understand why we'd need to have a joint one - we run a joint budget and both know whats going on with each others money so no need to setup a new one...
We have a joint account for kid's stuff, food, bills, mortgage etc . And our own for bikes, handbags, or what ever other frivolous purchases take our fancy.
It's good to have some financial independence IME, then there's no guilt for your money weaknesses.
We bth have our own accounts and pay or own share of the bills.... happy after 7 years... don't think it's going to change any time soon...
separate accounts for me and mrs b = 22yrs of married bliss :wink:- not going to risk it all by getting a joint one now
Hah! Joint account!
Get to ****!
No way, not ever ever ever ever.
Tesco may get a significant proportion of my wage, but better that than Jimmy ****ing Choo.
when we were first married my wife had CCJ's against her and keeping separate accounts enabled me to get better mortgage rates, etc. Now we're used to it I can't honestly see any reason to change. She is a 2nd card holder on one of my CC's so that effectively acts as the joint account, and I give her a monthly cash allowance into her bank account (yes, really!) while she isn't working / bringing up the kids
Joint and single for me, but best of all is the massive slush/biking fund hidden in the garage 
We have one personal joint account and seven accounts for the businesses for which we are joint directors, including a Euro account.
Missus also has a solo account - I know my place!
25 years of joint account - never saw the point of separate accounts, we love each other, what's mine is hers and vise versa
Do you not have a bike habit?
You need to cover your tracks and what better way than your own personal account 🙄
Plus a joint one for dull things like mortgage, bills, food.
Never had a joint account, purely because I can't see the point.
We split our expenses relative to our incomes, so why bother changing our existing accounts?
Separate accounts for us; we each pay for our own stuff/hobbies/cars/expenses and I cover the house and associated costs while the wife pays school.
Don't worry about percentages and all that crap.
(Think we've done this before but..)
My wife and I have our own personal accounts that our salaries are paid into.
Then we both have standing orders to a joint account that all the mortgage, bills and stuff come off.
Makes budgetting nice and easy: what's left in our personal accounts is ours, what's left in the joint at the end of the month is surplus that gets transferred into savings account.
Separate accounts I love her, what's mine is hers and vice versa, we also trust each other so no need to have joint account.
all my wage goes into the only building sociaty account we have.
i take nothing back from it.....ever.
all the stuff i buy is from money i earn on the side.
After 27 years together, 11 of them married we have never had a joint account.
Is that wrong?
I've got 2 single accounts in my name, the wife has access to the joint account which only recieves the family allowance payments.
When we got married we both worked and had our own accounts, but put equal amounts in to cover the bills, when the wife stopped working she closed down her personal account, and i didn't see any point in moving money from one account to another so I pay all the bills from my single accounts. I have to sources of regular income and it's easier for them both to go in to seperate accounts, the wife just asks if she wants more money than whats in the joint account.
Joint account? Why would you want that? 1 account each. Considered a 'household' account but it seems better just to split the direct debits between us. Some joint 'savings' accounts to handle shuffling of money or putting aside.
Joint account, plus paid an allowance into two individual accounts for personal stuff (me: bikes). Seems the simplest way.
Been married 16yrs, never had joint account, spouse does standing order to my account now as I don't work enough. Well, that's not strictly true I work hard running the family etc but don't have full-time employment. Thought about having a joint account recently but didn't bother, I'm kept in penury....
Been maried a year but been together 13. About 10 years ago when we got the first house we started with a joint account and kept separate ones too. Then we got an off set mortgage which was the best thing we ever did. Everything went into the 'one account' including our individual savings and the mortgage just dropped so quickly. Everything still goes into one pot, but is spread across a few savings accounts. We're married so it's all ours, even though I earn double what she does. Can't see the point in separate accounts. If we ever split up, which I don't envisage, I'd get screwed anyway!
The wife is great at managing our money and still lets me have £5ks worth of bikes in the garage!
[i]The wife is great at managing our money [/i]
Lucky you!
As before - what GrahamS said.
All very well this "I love her and she loves me" BS, but how can I make a sacrifice and buy MrsJ a nice present that means something special if I do it with [u]her[/u] money from a joint account?
GrahamS - Member(Think we've done this before but..)
My wife and I have our own personal accounts that our salaries are paid into.
Then we both have standing orders to a joint account that all the mortgage, bills and stuff come off.Makes budgetting nice and easy: what's left in our personal accounts is ours, what's left in the joint at the end of the month is surplus that gets transferred into savings account.
This is how we manage as well - not married but 30 yrs together and never a row about money - only there is never a surplus to save
Separate accounts.
GrahamS +1.
I would have never had a joint with the ex, but didn't hesitate to have one with my new wife.
I have a bike habit but she's cool about it, i can never understand 'covering your tracks' are you adults?
Spend money you've got but no more never get a credit card unless you pay it off every month 😉
We've got a joint current account and a joint bills account, and my bike habit has to come out of the current account. Won't touch a credit card, which probably makes me a bit odd.
Five years and no rows about money here either - not quite the length of time as as some of the above though...
Together 17 years, separate accounts, no plans on changing, works just fine. Seems from the above plenty of other people do that too. 🙂
We have joint savings account but seperate current accounts, don't see any need for joint current accounts. The converstaion hasn't come up in 20 years together.
Spend money you've got but no more never get a credit card unless you pay it off every month
Who are you? Martin friggin' Lewis?
never had joint acc, I suppose just never got round to it. Im quite lucky though as wife pays everything (from mortgage to food shopping), my wage gets spent on me, kids and bikes. Saturday shopping expeditions are usually done with my card.......but without me. Its always worked, why change
While he is, no doubt, giving out good advice; I really cant stand that Martin Lewis bloke.
No joit acc's here. Married for 5yrs next wk.
We have three joint accounts for different things. She has her own seperate account that I can't see on my online portal into which her wages are paid.
Not that bothered really.
Always had only a single joint account. 18years together. The wife used to earn more than me but now I earn more than her. I have a fairly serious bike habit - but so does she, so never any arguements. I guess that we are fortunately fairly comfortably off so money never comes up as a issue. I suppose you need similar views / spending habits to make it work but I never feel like I'd need to hide anything from her.
One of my mates has a bike shop and on about 50% of all bigger bike purchases he writes out two reciepts. One for the cusomter, one for their other half. I also have mates with bikes kept away from their home to hide them from there missus. Crazy really.
I've had a joint account with the gf since we first lived together. Had our own accounts, and set up a standing order into for about 75% of our salaries into the joint account. Got to the point where if the joint account was running low, whoever had the most money would top it up.
Since then (8 years ago), we've moved over to getting our salaries paid directly into the joint account, still have our own accounts but they are pretty much dormant. The only downside is its impossible to transfer money out for presents/gifts etc as we can both see everything. Plus side is if she wants to get married, its going to be a joint saving up thing. For a couple of months earlier this year, each time I had some spare cash, I'd plan to open a seperate savings account to start saving for 'the big day' but then she'd remember I had £30 cash and ask for it so she could pay for something, so in the end I just came clean and told her we'd have to save up together 🙂
What GrahamS and several others do. Works fine for us.
We have a joint account, but I also have my own overdraft 😉