This is really good advice, and as others have pointed out you can have separate and joint accounts and have transparency with your partner in all of them.

I adjusted all the sliders until I found the perfect font! But then I realized I had just recreated comic sans... what am I doing with my life?

Yes! He is limited to his brilliance and good looks, we have the power of the internet!

So you're telling me that my whole life could have been a choose your own adventure and I didn't even know it??

Professional excel jockey here.

Sploosh.

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Great article! I recently started a sort of daily news recap for my family (starting with my fiancee) and I've grown 150% in readership (from 4 to 10, their all related, but 150% sounds pretty good!). I've wanted to make it into a more professionalish blog, instead of it getting buried in with my posts on Kinja (which…

Yes but the differences, are you drinking because you're happy, are you drinking because your sad, or are you drinking because you just don't care anymore...

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All I could think of when I was reading this article, was "I'm totally going to get that and change the key phrase to "THUNDERCATS HOOOOO". Otherwise I might be embarrassed to be talking to my phone in public.

Yeah... since when do we allow them to talk anyway?

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What do you mean? I have no trouble falling asleep anywhere on my plane...

I thought this was a 2013 only thing.

Yeah it's a big risk, and like I said, if you can't pay your debt, you shouldn't even be bothering looking at other investments.

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So keep in mind, this chart is normalized on a "consumer unit", which appears to be based on a $68,800 annual (pre-tax) income. You'll want to pay more attention to the % of pre-tax income spent on the items. Also keep in mind this is what we do spend money on... not what we should be spending money on necessarily.

I certainly don't put all my spend on alcohol in the alcohol section, it makes me look like an alcoholic...

Uh... it can be. As S_T_R was pointing out, paying more than the minimum on a 3.4% loan ends up costing you more in opportunity cost then if you pay the minimum and invest the rest. Granted, if you can only make the minimum payment, then ABSOLUTELY pay your student loans.