Although we've now been married just over 3! months, July was the first month where we followed a joint budget and I completely took over the bill paying. It also was the first full month where we only had one household - although we were paying the final bills from our former apartments.
Whenever DH wakes up, we're going to have a quick budget meeting for August. One thing we've kind of had to hash out this month is the when/how of him giving me the cash tips to deposit. He was used to to just going by the bank once or twice a month to make a deposit. I want to make a deposit every Friday (when the lobby is open til 6.)
He didn't see why I wanted to do that since our account balances have more than enough for our daily expenses. I explained to him that all my money is directly deposited and that helps me be able to guage what the next month's budget will be like. When I showed him how much was available to budget for August from my contributions versus what he'd given me so far ... he started giving me the tips as he got them. 
(He's a delivery driver - makes a small hourly wage, but averages 2x that in tips/delivery charges.)
So ... since we were putting everything together this month, it is difficult to say what our "income" really was - our budget was based off of all moneys from various checking/savings being put together. Expenses include final bills and deposit charges for new accounts. In other words, this isn't a typical month for us by any means.
So .. expenses:
Mortgage (loan only) $526
Extra Principal: $25
Natural Gas: 69.20
Electricity: 382.44 (includes June bill that got misplaced!!)
Phone: 239.04 (last month of DH needing to use phone as a hotspot for Internet - our bill for August is less than $60.)
Water: 51.43 (2 month bill)
Internet/Cable: 150 (deposit, extra house visit)
Groceries - Fast food: 29.81
Groceries - 265.08
Auto Fuel - 241.87 (delivery driver ....)
Tithe: 130 (DH isn't on board with tithing, but is ok with me continuing my same level as before)
Giving: 30
Car Maintenance: 14.97
Car tax/licenses: 421.69 (Tags for 3 cars, 2 new licenses)
Clothing: 20.40
Computer Replacement: (DH) 249
Garmin Replacement: (DH) 142
Household (blanket, toiletries, paper goods, fan, etc.) 148.36
Medical - Non-deductible (allergy, etc) 64.53
Medical FSA Reimbursed- 80.48 (copays, meds, heating pad)
Pets - Cats - food/litter -$80.97 (a LOT of litter/food)
Pets - Cats - Medicine(flea meds) $77
Pes - Non Cats - Food - 13.50
Pets - Non Cats - Medicine - 16.61
Fitness - 41.83 (my gym membership, hopefully can cancel soon)
Date Night: 14.77 (although will be getting pizza tonight)
DH fun money - 16
Laura fun money - 79.22
Student loan (DH) 55
Medical debt (DH) 372
Whooh! I think that covers it! Besides the money put into the above categories, there was also money put into a variety of other holding categories.
August will be spendy for car maintenance, and I just got approved for a new AE card which I'll be using to make a $1k payment on the medical (get back 250!)
I'm looking forward to what our first month of spending will be like without deposits and final bill fees. (also without needing to replace electronics!)
I have around 6 hours of overtime in August, and I think September will be a 3 paycheck month. DH is working on putting together some speaker sales. (To help fund his boat and tv wishes.)
Mortgage Principal Balance:
Start 7/1/16 - $112,000
As of 7/31/16 (2 payments) - 111,619
Medical Debt:
As of 7/1/16 - 3,668
As of 7/31/16 - 3,296
Student Loan - TBD
First Month Fully Integrated Finances
August 1st, 2016 at 12:03 am
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August 1st, 2016 at 01:13 am 1470010404
I hope you newlyweds are enjoying your new life together!
August 1st, 2016 at 01:24 am 1470011055
It is definitely an adjustment to having to get receipts from someone else in order to keep track of the budget (especially someone not used to keeping receipts - good thing I started training him when it didn't matter months ago - to give me receipts for my receipt apps.
August 1st, 2016 at 06:00 am 1470027624
But it certainly sounds like you're on top of it.
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August 2nd, 2016 at 03:18 am 1470104282
SG - So far, I do think so.
VS - The tip money is what people give him when they get their food (usually ... though some people don't seem to care/understand that more than 1/2 his income comes from tips and give either NOTHING (UGH@@) or chump change.) The fastest way to have a delivery place make sure your order gets precedence over others is to tip well. The fastest way to have your delivery be the very last on the list is to be a bad or non tipper.
Kiki - He's reimbursed for mileage in a way. Each order has a "delivery charge" added that he gets.