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what's next? joint bank accounts?

Who wants.to adjust the seat and mirrors every time they drive?

We've got 1 car. If I need to go somewhere and the wife has it, I get the bus. It's a lot cheaper than owning 2 cars.

I can't even entertain this premise. There's no way neither of them has a preference...

I have a hard time accepting that everyone should have their own vehicle in the first place.

Yup, that's how we do it. We have kids and two cars: minivan and hybrid sedan. The hybrid gets more than 2x the mileage vs the minivan, it's smaller, and both of us prefer it, so it's what we use 90% of the time. We take the minivan if we're all going somewhere, or we both need to be somewhere at the same time. I'll also take the minivan for cargo (hardware store, dump, furniture store, etc).

Before we had kids, we had one car. When we both needed to be somewhere at the same time, I'd take my bicycle or the bus, and my SO would take the car.

Each person having "their" car makes no sense to me, I see cars as tools in the toolbox, and we take the one that's best suited to the task at hand.

My wife and I share the cars like this. Is it so weird? We usually select the best car for the job at hand.

I ride my bike and my partner theirs, we aren't savages.

my partner likes to eat in her car.

I like to camp in bear country.

we share but there are definitely assigned vehicles. Also cutely I bought hers for her and she bought mine for me and we both love that.

You guys usually have two cars?

Nothing spices up a marriage like Communism.

We have two electric cars, a big one and a small one. The small one is “mine” and the big one is “his.” However, we both work from home so the only commute anymore is taking the kids to school. So, whenever possible, we take the little one because it’s more efficient by far. He doesn’t mind and thankfully it saves seat profiles, even if we always have to adjust the mirror.

I love my wife, she can't drive for shit though, nor does she respect vehicle maintenence, much less asthetic care.

Nope.

Also, she's literally told me she'd be afraid to drive my car precisely because I keep it so nice and she doesn't want to be responsible for fucking it up.

For years we didn't have our own sides of the bed, but then one day we got a bed side table and that all came to an end.

My parents have "the new minivan" and "the old minivan," I guess that's what happens when you adopt four kids and two dogs.

We have two cars and they are both kinda mine. He bike commutes and way prefers it. I work two hours away though and have always driven more. So generally I take the van if I’m going to be at work for a few days, I’ve got it camperized, or the bmw if it’s a there and back, or other trips like that. Since I’m gone for a few days at a time he still needs a car for some errands, otherwise we’d just have the van. I do all the organizing for service work and cleaning, and general car stuff as well.

My wife and I each have our own cars, but they're both in her name so she can drive whatever the fuck she wants.

all my lives

Are you a cat?

My car has a clutch. My wife can’t drive it. It’s exhausting when something goes wrong with her car.

My dad worked nights and Mom was a SAHM who also did some freelance stuff from home. They basically had a first come/first served system, and honestly didn't have many conflicts so the second car (usually the one they've had longer) was rarely used. That was perfect when I started driving in high school, because I could usually use that car (even if it was a few years older than I was)

My brother talked them into buying a used Mitsubishi Eclipse back when it was still kinda cool (an '03 model purchased in 2007?). Mom ended up really liking that car and it's not really practical for the handyman stuff my dad does in his retirement, so now they have assigned cars.

It's how we do it. Some factors in choosing the car:

• Distance (gas milage)
• Destination (smaller car for inner city driving/parking)
• Safety of route (sometimes I drive over the mountains and one our cars is better suited)
• Number and size of passengers (children vs adults)
• Cargo (dump run, grocery shopping, etc)
• If I have to take a conf call when driving