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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago (4 children)

what's next? joint bank accounts?

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dogs and cats, living together!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Delicious. (I'm in Ohio.)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

My partner and I have joint financial accounts, but it still would be weird to us to take whatever car.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 128 points 2 months ago (20 children)

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 80 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Maybe they just hit a button (1, 2)

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't even need to hit it sometimes - the profile often goes with the key fob too.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but if they're just grabbing keys that wouldn't work, but hopefully would let them pick the profile when car starts

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

They must be similar sizes.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My wife and I are about the same height so we don't have to adjust our seats.

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 90 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 months ago (16 children)

That's fantastic if your city offers busses! Or public transportation at all 😭

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[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was gonna say “wait until this guy hears my wife and I SHARE a car… oh, the humanity!”

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing spices up a marriage like Communism.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Boutta seize the means of reproduction. Hammer that ass, and sickle those tiddies. Stand in a bread line to put a bun in the oven. It's OUR orgasm, comrade

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] consumptionone@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I fell into this trap. We have a nice, fancy, efficient EV that's my daily driver, and a larger, less efficient gas vehicle that doubles as the family car/road trip machine that she dailies. We work roughly the same distance from our offices, but on days when she has to go across town on an errand, she takes the EV. It makes sense to save gas and whatnot.

Rims are fucked. I think she's rubbed them on every available curb in a 25 mile radius. She doesn't care. Fuck me for wanting a nice car I guess.

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[–] dudinax@programming.dev 29 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

all my lives

Are you a cat?

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (15 children)

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

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Sold my Miata for this reason and I regret it every day.

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[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

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
[–] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You guys usually have two cars?

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How else are you supposed to get to work? The bus takes 2 and a half hours and you will get there late and have to leave early. God I wish the bus was viable.

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[–] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are wealthy families usually from over seas. 3 brothers will buy a mansion together they will all live there with their wives, they all help each other and they buy 2 regular cars and a luxury car that they all share. They look at us Americans like we are crazy and I gotta say they kinda have a point.

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I could never do this, my car is one the few sacred places that can be truly my own. I'm not even sure I can let someone else sit in the driver's seat

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it, what's so special about this?

[–] li10@feddit.uk 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s just a reckless way to live and is frankly plunging our entire society into unabated chaos

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