People who live togther is SL - how do you handle the prims?

Bless me! Hallelujah! Call the newspapers! Let the Town Crier do his stuff! Inform the news channels! Write a letter to the Times!

Pep (Jig wrote a *whole* post without misspelling a word)

Some things never change.

Hehe, We have a saying in our house that if Mom is happy, everyone's happy...and how true that is

Traditionally? Oh......has that changed?

Find good quality low prim furniture...it is out there you just have to look....both decide on what you want in the main living area and then design your bedrooms like you want.......you cannot divide the prims up between the two of you and as for the one paying the rent getting to use the most prims....if the two of you are living together then you should both be contributing to the rent....you would if you lived with me.

If you need some low prim furniture made check my profile...the man who built my house makes awesome low prim furniture

Great answers! It's no good asking me anything techy as i'll only have a senior moment. As to prim sharing... it's only fair to halve the available prims (half each) and both agree to stick with that. For real arguments, give each other editing rights and send back items that go over each other's prim limits rotfl You can do this with absolutely awful furniture/landscaping as well, the sort of things you can't possibly live with.
n.b. You both need a good sense of humour to survive such pacts

You could handle it like many couples handle money in RL - decide how many prims will be "ours" (e.g. the basics), and then split the remaining prims in half, for each to use however they want. Any primful object that is meant to be "ours" is less likely to be contentious if both of you agree ahead of buying it that you'd like to have it!

On a week-to-week rented parcel, you may have to get your own prim counter to easily monitor this. It's one reason to "buy" rental land (prices are very low now, in some cases free), because then you have access to the land menu, which will handily list who owns what objects on your parcel in the "objects" tab.
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Pretty much how it works in our house too...except the saying is "Don't mess with the redhead."

I know some real life couples who avoid financial arguments by keeping separate checking accounts, dividing up between them who pays what bills, and consulting on major purchases only because one needs to borrow money from the other. I don't think there's anything wrong with that approach to a relationship.

Divide up responsibilities between yourself for who sets up what essentials on your land. After that, come to a general understanding of what prim problems you face.

I forget exactly how it's done (someone else can probably give the advice), but you can set group permissions so that either of you can send back objects on group land. Let him rez his elephant statue when he's around, then send it back to his inventory when he's not around, or you need the prims for something else.

If you really, really wanted to do prim allocations between you, one of these landlord rental systems might do that for you. Since I see them saying "pay x for y prims," I assume they have some sort of way of enforcing prim limits.

Or, you can just write down on a notecard who can do what with prims. There is no automatic enforcement, but you can always check "About Land - Objects" to see who's being honest.

As a landlord who sees this often, I don't understand this post.

So what if you're renting somewhere that you don't own? You get a prim allocation. You're told how many you can use. You don't need a counter or anything technical. You need to learn how to count the prims of your items, and then talk to your partner about the stuff that you want in your place. If you need more prims to put out everything you want, you either talk to your landlord to buy some if they offer extra prims, or move into a place with a bigger prim limit.

The landlord doesn't care how you allocate the prims between you. All decent prim counters will tell you how many prims you're using, minus deeded objects. Beyond that, it is up to you and your partner to figure out how to share things, and there is nothing technical about that.

Is this a personal relationship or platonic friends?

I for one, eat prims. I cannot live on less than 3,750 which is barely anything. I think people should just rez what they want and when limits are approaching the prim hog should derez things so their partner-homey-lover-friend can rez stuff too.

Now if it is your partner, just rez whatever you want and let them moan about prims to you. Nina moans ALL THE TIME about my prim usage "Omg Bri that cube is 184 prims! derez it!!"

On the serious side, i would not share land with someone i did not know really really really well. Being considerate is always a plus when it is strictly friendship.

And for a love of history on where Prim Hogging got us: http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Prim_hog

you seriously need to see who has the best stuff and go from there.

You sound as though you're worried not that your partner will rez something big, but that you won't speak up if it happens. I'd say having a talk beforehand is important. It isn't always the other person - sometimes we know we let things happen and need to guard against our own foibles.

This.

And never let the true love of your life, who you only met yesterday, be an Owner unless they are also paying their share of the Tier.