NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/soc/singles/30958

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From: [e-mail] (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>My ex and I always threw our money together, and we always had the same
>feelings of resentment and of being used that Tim describes.  Now that
>I'm on the brink of having the decision to make again, we're opting for
>seperate bank accounts.  Decision to be re-evaluated in 3-5 years.

My parents maintained three checking accounts, one joint and a separate one
for each of them.  In the early days, Dad probably had all the deposit forms,
but later they divided them up.  The joint account was for paying the
household bills, and Mom controlled the checkbook.  When I asked her about
this scheme, she told me that she refused to share a checkbook with my
father because he sometimes didn't record deposits and reconciled the account
only about twice a year.

A few years ago I was talking with an attractive, single woman who revealed
that she had never reconciled a checking account.  Every few years she'd
simply close the account and open another one at a different bank.  I never
saw her after that evening.

-- Herb Huston
-- [e-mail]