Account Integration and Consolidation for the "Newly Wed" couple
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Our biggest problem is we have all had apple accounts for a long time. Now that we can combine them it's a pain so it will stay.
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Art and I each have a separate free spend account that we put a certain amount in each week (envelope idea just with credit/debit cards). And then a joint account for paying bills out of.
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As a soon to be married person this is helpful. Thanks everyone.
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Our bank accounts are "separate" as in we each have our own savings and checking. But we have access to each others. So we aren't keeping money from each other, but we can track where it goes to when we need to.
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Oh yes we both have access to each others accounts but they are separate.
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Ideally go for separate houses.
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Mrs nadnerB and I use seperate email addresses, social media and amazon accounts.
We share the financial stuff. -
@dominica and I have a shared wiki to track information. We highly recommend that. It has been invaluable.
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Social media accounts - definitely separate, Rachel doesn't want to hear about any of my hobby stuff, and like the rest have said they are designed to be an individual thing for individual people.
Amazon, we have separate accounts right now, I've considered making a single one just haven't taken the time. The biggest advantage of a single account is purchasing books and shared Android app purchases. They would all show up on any device we attach our amazon account to, otherwise Prime allows you to add up to 4 or 5 additional users to the main account for Prime access, so it really doesn't matter.
Gmail - We have separate accounts, we don't want each others contact lists on our devices, only our own. The unfortunate draw back is having to buy apps twice. I really wish Google would setup family sub accounts, but maybe they don't because they really want you to buy the app for each person individually.
Bank accounts - we have three and we both have access to everything. Shared - we figure out what our monthly house hold expenses are, what we each make as a percentage of the whole, and pay that percent into the shared account to cover the house whole needs. The remainder goes into our own personal accounts that we can spend as we wish. There is no complaining when someone buys something, no matter how expensive as long as the person saved/is using their own funds.
Now this said, if one of us makes significantly more than the other, when we go out together, the own who makes more often picks up the check from our personal account. -
@Dashrender said:
otherwise Prime allows you to add up to 4 or 5 additional users to the main account for Prime access, so it really doesn't matter.
4 or 5 additional users... How do you do this?
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@IRJ said:
@Dashrender said:
otherwise Prime allows you to add up to 4 or 5 additional users to the main account for Prime access, so it really doesn't matter.
4 or 5 additional users... How do you do this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200444180
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@Dashrender said:
Gmail - We have separate accounts, we don't want each others contact lists on our devices, only our own. The unfortunate draw back is having to buy apps twice. I really wish Google would setup family sub accounts, but maybe they don't because they really want you to buy the app for each person individually.
You can have both accounts on the device and choose not to sync everything, but I never tried to see if you can access the play store from both accounts before.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
Gmail - We have separate accounts, we don't want each others contact lists on our devices, only our own. The unfortunate draw back is having to buy apps twice. I really wish Google would setup family sub accounts, but maybe they don't because they really want you to buy the app for each person individually.
You can have both accounts on the device and choose not to sync everything, but I never tried to see if you can access the play store from both accounts before.
Hmm... Since I'm primarily living on my Windows Phone (which I still enjoy - only miss not having a Starbucks App) I've formatted my Galaxy S4 ... I could put both accounts on there and see what I get.
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@Dashrender said:
@IRJ said:
@Dashrender said:
otherwise Prime allows you to add up to 4 or 5 additional users to the main account for Prime access, so it really doesn't matter.
4 or 5 additional users... How do you do this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200444180
Thanks!
