How do you split your finances

[Jamie8671]

Was reading another post and thought it was interesting how unmarried couples split their money.

I earn 90k and partner 28k. Our net salaries all go into one pot for ‘bills/savings/life’ and each person spends as they like. We don’t keep our money separated but have been together 8 years and whilst we’re not married we share all else. No DCs.

The one difference is that my pension contributions are much higher as both of us are % of salary rather than £ amount.

What do you do? Genuinely interested as lots of people are talking about seperate finances

Both our wages go into our joint account, all bills, mortgage, weekly shop, petrol is used with that card. We have a separate account each and have £50 a month to spend on ourselves. Any extra money we have (not often) goes into our saving account. When we get to 1.5k we usually try and book a holiday.
We've always done this since we lived together before we got married. DH earns more than me now but I was the breadwinner for many years when private renting as he was finishing uni.
When I inherited some money I shared it with him, would never think to spend it just on me.
It works for us even though most our friends don't have a joint account