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One of the best things my fiance and I did was create a shared checking account immediately after moving in together. I am very quick to pay bills and I'm more organized than he is. I notice that we're about to run out of something, he notices a week after it runs out. So I buy stuff we need and write rent/utility checks out of our joint checking and debit account. We agree to put the same amount in per month. We also had clear rules of what is OK to put on the shared debit account. For us, anything that's for "us" is OK. Cleaning supplies, groceries, etc. If it's just for me, I use my own cash. We have had maybe one minor disagreement in 14 months of living together, and it was easily solved because we just revised the rules. Highly, highly recommended.