Drawing on ethnographic research into household money practices among young middle-class couples in Warsaw, Poland, this article shows that normative concerns about the fair use of domestic money shape household budgeting rules. The practical division of funds into ‘mine’, ‘yours’ and ‘ours’ reflects what couples running a household together consider morally right. Focusing on couples’ practical and moral reasoning, I show the set of expectations and the moral logic they employ to achieve fairness in their household financial arrangements. The analysis of two models of domestic money allocation – the 50–50 model, which is based on a couple’s equal contributions, and the joint-money model, which involves a couple’s recognition of mutual obligations – highlights how fairness is articulated in rules about equality, independence and solidarity. By studying couples through time as they experience significant life changes, I show how the rules of fairness come to be challenged and how what is considered fair is questioned or even contested. I argue that turning points such as taking out a mortgage together or having a child produce new expectations and imaginaries about the future and prompt couples to question the rules of fairness and consequently to change their money practices.

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追求波兰中产阶级年轻夫妇家庭财务安排的公平性

本文利用对波兰华沙年轻中产阶级夫妇家庭理财行为的人种学研究，表明对国内资金公平使用的规范性担忧影响了家庭预算规则。将资金实际划分为“我的”、“你的”和“我们的”反映了经营家庭的夫妻在道德上认为什么是正确的。关注夫妻的实际和道德推理，我展示了他们为实现家庭财务安排的公平而采用的一套期望和道德逻辑。对两种国内资金分配模型的分析——基于夫妻平等贡献的 50-50 模型和涉及夫妻承认相互义务的联合资金模型——强调了公平是如何在平等规则中阐明的、独立和团结。通过对经历重大生活变化的夫妻进行研究，我展示了公平规则如何受到挑战，以及被认为是公平的东西如何受到质疑甚至质疑。我认为，诸如一起抵押贷款或生孩子等转折点会产生对未来的新期望和想象，并促使夫妻质疑公平规则，从而改变他们的金钱做法。