
Dual income expense sharing?
Is there any ratio in which you split your expenses? Based on who earns more or based on gender?

@DrizzyDre Having dual income in the family is fantastic. In terms of sharing expenses and responsibilities, here's w...
It’s a question that many men want to discuss but can’t in the open. How do the costs of life split between you and your partner? If you’re both making the same money, is it 50-50? Or do you each handle certain categories of expenses without getting into the details?
We pool everything into one account. Pay everything by sitting together and going over our expense.
We discuss every purchases that costs over 1000 and only then place the order unless it is an emergency or for food.
I pay all the bills and expenses. My wife pays the house EMI. Apart from that, we also maintain our expenses daily in a google sheet shared between both of us. This gives us insights on our investments and expenses at a daily level.
No such criteria to split as such. I pay for almost everything form my credit cards. She pays for her normal txns using upi. That’s it mostly. Whatever money we have is family money and not mine or her. Keep it simple bro, don’t over complicate things and don’t bring egos in between. You have to live together under same roof for many decades. We both have our say in case of making any big purchases.
For eg: I have paid off her education loan (she took before marriage) since I had money in the bank. Why pay 9.5% interest on her loan when I am getting return less than that on money in my bank account. Every earning is family earning and every liability is that of family as well.
agree. btw - how long have you been married ?
All the bills and necessities I pay for, but I live with my parent (WFH) so no rent or anything.
Apart from that I give my wife 15k every month that she can spend however she likes my expectations are that she saves that money and invest at the end of the year.
I have also given her a credit card which she can use for anything, the OTP comes to my phone so if I see any significant spend i.e above 5k I ask her about it otherwise I just send her the OTP
We have an axio (walnut) group via which we split all the common expenses like bills, rents restaurant visits, and even rickshaws etc. Whatever else is each's own money, so either of us can spend or save or invest however they deem fit.
Household expenses like rent, utilities, grocery etc are divided equally between us. We each contribute equal amount into a common account that we exclusively use for household expenses.
Since I earn more than her by 3 times, I take care of any additional expenses like vacation, flights, major purchase. She uses her money for her minor expenses like cosmetics etc.
Majority of our txn via cc (hers is supplementary) to maximise rewards. Both of us work. Income is mine:hers 65:35. We don’t compare our expenses. For expenses larger than 5k, we inform each other and take consent.
we pool in the income, and I tc of all the finances, wife and I have say 5k a month each to spend on misc, the rest say outings/rent/food/investment comes out from the joint account.
since I'm more into finance, I get my freedom to plan and I note everything and have automGed this basically, so it's easy.
but I do keep my wife in the loop always (say while buying an expensive thing or to share info on the expenses of the week/montb) so that she doesn't feel left out.
Is there any ratio in which you split your expenses? Based on who earns more or based on gender?
@DrizzyDre Having dual income in the family is fantastic. In terms of sharing expenses and responsibilities, here's w...
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