#Joint Accounts

[drdarienzo]

Financial Harmony: Navigating Pre-Marital Financial Planning for a Smooth Marital Journey

A key, yet frequently disregarded, component of pre-wedding preparations is financial planning. Let’s highlight its importance and detail essential financial considerations for couples preparing for marriage. Gaining a complete understanding of each partner’s financial situation is a critical initial step. Each individual should honestly disclose their earnings, debts, assets, and financial…

[calicomarie11]

So I know we all assume Buck and Eddie have keys to each other’s houses, but we are sleeping on all the other things they have keys to.

I want someone to realize that Buck just has a key to Eddie’s truck and Eddie has a key to the Jeep.

They share a storage unit, because it’s cheaper that way.

There’s a safety deposit box at the bank with both of their important docs (cough, Eddie’s will, cough).

They share a note file with all the passwords for their streaming services and Chris’s school apps.

Just, sometimes I think we don’t make them codependent enough.

[morganbritton132]

Steve, in the middle of one of Eddie’s live-streams: Did you see that another billionaire went missing at sea? That’s hilarious.

Steve: You can make fun of billionaires going missing because they’re evil. It doesn’t make me a bad person.

Steve:

Steve: …You’re not a billionaire, are you?

Eddie, offended: No….Werent you though, King Steve?

Steve: Upper middle class, Eddie.

Eddie:

Steve:

Eddie: You make fun of Will going missing all the time.

Steve: Yeah, because we found him!

[larrylimericks]

17Oct24

What joy these five names used to carry: Louis, Liam, Zayn, Niall and Harry. Now we ache to the core — A strange new OT4 Signed, “Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry.”

[usuallymyenthusiast]

I know everyone else has mentioned it but honestly it’s insane how there was never a discussion about the money. like buddie just seemed to immediately share everything buck won throughout the ep??? even when learning about it eddie’s like “hmm maybe we can take this to vegas” it was always them TOGETHER from the start!! this is not very “single guy” behavior buck …

[rivalcobalt]

Justice takes many forms

[petrovna-zamo]

[starflungwaddledee]

lost a bet with @eliastheownerof0axolotls, so here's today's starstruck shipaganza entry (and also a belated birthday present for elias) featuring his oc flower dee and the rather absurd "blush off":

[chasing-posts]

Gai and Kakashi got married on the playground when they were 5/6 years old. It was just for fun but they, unlike everyone else in their year, never got divorced afterwards.

(Which is hilarious compared to Obito and Kakashi who got married 28 times, but got divorced a total of 37 times!)

Anyways because of that, the two never felt they needed a real marriage as adults. They had their flower rings Gai would replace once a year (unless Kakashi beat him too it), and their eternal rivalry, what more could one want?

That is until one day, when Tsunade introduced a new pension plan for married shinobi, and tax benefits were too great to ignore, and Kakashi and Gai signed the paperwork the next day!

What's more romantic than asking someone to be your life partner, so you can save money together for all eternity.

[handweavers]

today i went to the bank and the teller at the desk was like "hey do you know that on your main account there are two separate people listed as owning the card in a joint account, kiran [surname] and priya [surname] rather than a single kiran priya [surname]" and then she told me my surname is hyphenated with my middle name on some accounts and the gendered address is also different on each account, so my main chequing account is a joint account held by miss kiran priya-[surname] and mister priya priya-[surname], my credit card is under a different name and gender combo, and my savings account under another completely different combo, and literally none of those are my actual name. what the fuck

[mousemannation]

theyre doing corporate sanctioned web weaves on main thank u atptour and daviscup instagram accounts

[mybodychoseviolence]

next time i see someone push in front of a person in a wheelchair to get on the elevator first i am destroying their kneecaps with my cane

[loubella77]

This one was a good smoke 1st thing in the am 😋

[pourablecat]

Whoever said a couple of old biddies couldn't dance?

[asmoteeth]

I've been trying to come up with a funny caption for this clip for a good 15 minutes I'm sure y'all already know what I think about this sequence

[mattnben-bennmatt]

The start of something new

I am fascinated by the beginnings of their friendship. Even though they first met each other in 1980, at 10 and 8 years old, when Matt moved into the neighborhood, Matt has said that it was only when Ben started high school that they "started hanging out". This happened in 1986/1987, and Ben and Matt were "thick as thieves through that school year."

But they didn't seem to become besties straight away (despite Ben's wishes). Apparently, Matt felt a bit "threatened" by Ben's previous acting experience and was afraid he might displace him in the school's drama department. And so when Ben joined the Fall production of "The Visit" (playing Matt's son), Matt pulled him aside to offer some "advice". “This is the theater. It’s not about your looks. It’s about the work.” Ben took the words to heart. He really looked up to Matt and respected his opinion. But he also wanted to earn his respect, and, unable to perceive Matt's own insecurities at the time, Ben was hurt that Matt apparently thought so little of him and his acting abilities. He was so marked by this interaction, that he has often recounted it throughout the years, naming it a "stand-out" as one of the dumbest things Matt's ever done.

So how did they go from circling each other to "thick as thieves"? How did Ben finally manage to earn the respect of the older, cooler, taller, "good-looking" Matt? How did Matt decide to overcome his own fears and insecurities and let Ben into his heart so that they would never be jealous of each other again, always wishing the best for the other? How did they become partners?

I believe the big turning point took place in the Winter of 1986:

MATT: The last fight I got into would have been in the mid-80s*. I remember it, we had a snow day at school, so we would all meet in the Cambridge Common and play tackle football. Cause there would be a foot of snow on the ground and so it was kind of like you can't get hurt. So it was a really fun thing to do. I mouthed off to a kid that I knew. But he was your height. He was like 6''6', right? And I might have been 5''3' at the time. And I said something. I scored on him or something, I don't know, I said something but he came for me. And it was like this mountain of a guy came at me. And I was like, "Oh man..." So before I knew it, I was on the ground. He was above me and I was like, "This is gonna be bad!" And it was right then that little 5''2' Ben Affleck tackled this dude off of me. Like out of nowhere. I was a junior and he was a freshman. And he tackled this kid off of me — literally at the risk of his own life. And really quickly then everyone broke it up. Cause they wanted to get back to the football game. Cause that was fun and this was ridiculous, right? And so that was the end of it. And the kid was reasonable and he was like, "Alright, I'm not fighting, I'm reasonable, let's play!" But I remember that was a big moment, going like, "This guy. He will put himself in a really bad spot for me. This is a good friend to have."

*This episode likely took place in late January 1987, as that was the only time that winter that the snow depth in Cambridge, MA, reached 6 inches, what would usually qualify for a snow day in the region.

The most likely date of the snow day in question is Monday, January 26th, 1987. While the snow depth reached 7 inches on the previous Friday, January 23rd as well, this happened during the night. It drizzled the rest of the day and by 7 PM the snow was back to 3 inches. The following Monday, however, it snowed all morning, reaching 7 inches by 3 PM. By that point, it had stopped actively snowing, likely inviting kids to go play tackle football in the Cambridge Common.

But so we have it. On that snow day in late January, brave little Ben risked "his own life" to come to Matt's rescue. And it was this reckless, ride-or-die devotion that made Matt finally go "This guy. [...] This is a good friend to have."

And from then on out they were "thick as thieves." They had "business lunches", where they spoke life into their dreams, and "planned their careers" together. They opened a shared bank account (with password "RiverP", after the recent breakout start River Phoenix, who they both admired). Ben even started secretly withdrawing his Voyage of the Mimi earnings from his college trust fund — $200 a week in a total of $7,000 before he was caught — which he has said was used to buy beers, pizza, and video games (but which I believe was also partly used to support their trips to New York for auditions). After all, "if one kid had enough for a candy bar, then the candy bar was bought and split in half—that’s just the way it’s been."

These acts of devotion, of being ride-or-die for each other, of pooling all their resources into their shared partnership, remained a linchpin of their friendship in the years to come. Even now, they always have each other's backs and are actively building a future together, through Artists Equity. And to me, it's just all the more wonderful to see where it all started.