I do not believe in keeping separate finances. I believe that in a marriage everything is shared, including the income and the bills. This could be partly because we are a single income household, but we operated the same when we we were both brining in income.
That is not to say that my wife and I do not have our own spending money. In our monthly budget we each have a set amount that is set aside for free spending. If either of us wants to purchase something outside of that free money we will discuss it and make a decision together. For example, I recently ran across a great deal on a netbook that I wanted, and even though I didn't have the money set aside in my free spending bucket we discussed it and decide to go ahead and make the purchase.
With a little communication it is very easy to make financial decisions together.
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