Money- Ours and Mine

These are the two types of money in the world- Ours and Mine.*

Ours: The institution of marriage is beautiful, but it’s also practical which is why it’s so great!  Hallmark says marriage is about the joining of two souls; your soul finds the one soul on earth that fits perfectly and then you put them together and it’s like one BIG soul.  History says marriage is about the joining of two checking accounts; when my money finds your money and we put them together, we’ve got a lot of OUR money.  So essentially, marriage is practically beautiful.

Mine: I want to have my own money.  This is important to me because I want to have control of my own financial destiny.  Also, this is an amazing bargaining chip for me to hold over your head in heated arguments about OUR finances.  Things MY money can buy are:

- things I don’t want you to know I’ve bought

- things you don’t want, but I need

- things I buy for your own good

- QVC

For everything else, there’s MasterCard/OUR money…

*”YOUR” money used to exist in, like, 1895.  But once Susan B. Anthony got her own coin, “Your” money was officially re-minted as “Our” money.