Cloud Nine - Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours--If you didn't live together before you could possibly find moving in together a little challenging. Not just because you are now living with another human with their own thoughts, ideas and how to do things but that human comes with all that stuff! It can be difficult to combine your things and his things and then you get to add in all that stuff you got for your wedding. Just remember compromise is the key to happiness. Start out by cataloging what you both are bringing to the table. See what you have doubles of and put those things aside. Anything that you don't have multiples of keep for the time being. You can go back and take a look at all the stuff you keep in six months. If you haven't used it, give it away. Once you've created your mutiples pile start going through that. Keep which ever one is newer, in better shape, etc. If you do this before you actually get married go through this process again, once you receive your wedding gifts. By going through your things fairly you can avoid those silly little fights that we all stumble into. And you will get rid of Yours and Mine and it will all be Ours.

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