Hey, a question today came into my mind.
I remember when I was newly married, we two would go to our bank and the employer there suggested that we close one of our two accounts to have one common one.
He said we save money that way because we would only have to pay the fee for one accounts instead of two.
I still recall my reaction which was being puzzled and then saying: NO WAY!

At that time I for the first thought that every modern person just NEEDS an own account.
Also I thought it easier to use the own income more independently (we both worked) and I also knew that my hubby isn't too good in using money, so I thought if he messes with his account we still would have money on mine which he couldn't just spend for stuff we can't eat.

Oh well, when we got seperated I was happy to have done that, he would have cutten off my access to the common account in the first heat most likely. So I did right in this very case.

What do you all say? How is it common at your place, how do you personally see it?

At that time I was kinda flabbergasted that it seemed so common here because the bank employee was pretty surprised that I refused his offer.
But my thought was that every grown up person in this modern world needs an own account.