I think that's a wise move, giliji. I am really looking forward to being totally in control of our finances again. We usually do have some sort of savings... worst case, $500, best case a few months salary. My AH was laid off a few years ago. Those years with him not working sucked up all our savings. We made cuts but not deep enough. I can't blame all of that on him because I was part of the problem. This stuff the last 8 months or so was a shock to me, though. We have two separate joint accounts that we operate from. I wasn't watching "his" account because I'd had no need to in the past... Totally short-sighted on my part.
For savings, how we did it before is just take the money off the top - straight into savings where we didn't touch it. I'm looking forward to being able to do that again when my husband moves out and everything is totally separate.