First National Mayonnaise Jar

[dragonlady7]

OK, so it was pretty funny to see the look on the bank girl's face when she asked if I had anything to deposit in the new account and I pulled out my "slushie fund" jar full of change.

Actually she laughed.

I had $16 in pennies. I'd rolled that already.
Only $5 in dimes. I had like $4.80 more, but without the last two dimes you can't put it into a roll, so there's no point.
And $20 in quarters.

So now Dave and I have a joint account. Most of that change was his, so I've said that's his contribution. (I put in $200 in tip money.)
It's not like we could spend the pennies. The quarters, OK, that was his emergency fund from the car. I'll make some change at work and give him his little emergency $5 stockpile back in something less... heavy.
(You never know when you're going to have forgotten your wallet and need gas to get home. I'm with him there.)

I still don't know what we're going to use that account for, whether we're going to both make deposits into it and use it to pay bills, or whether it's going to remain solely for me to convert cash into checks.

But there it is: our names are both on it.

I dunno, I feel accomplished, or something.

Maybe I'll start making a budget and, maybe even, we could start reasonably apportioning household chores. And, like, pretend we're adults.

But that's crazy talk.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Well, for now, since you're both just putting whatever you can toward bills, I'd say just make a rule that nobody can withdraw from the account for anything but bills. Later, when you're both working and so on, you can add up all the joint bills and divide them in half, and each of you can just deposit that amount into that account.