Who pays what?

:D either she stays forever - then the one with the money just buys.. or she leaves soon, then you buy - apparently the one with the money. If she goes on vacation alone with the money she saves because you pay, or goes drinking, you should consider whether to give her a key...

Hello

we are usually married :confused: you keep paying and paying :D:cool:

anyway, things do wear out and if your girlfriend moves out and into an apartment she probably doesn’t need a lawnmower, garden furniture or furniture that doesn’t fit.

so either buy and pay for it yourself or add a usage fee. in other words, she should just give you 25 € / month extra and that’s that

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either she stays forever - then the one with the money just buys it... or she leaves soon, then you buy - apparently the one with the money.
If she goes on vacation alone with the money she saves because you pay, or goes drinking, you should consider whether to give her a key...

So to clear this up:
It’s been decided for about 2 years that I will buy the house. We have been together for 1.5 years. And we have been living together for a year now. So it was all planned in advance. Since she only gets an apprenticeship salary, she naturally has much less than I do. If we maybe get married and/or have children, it might all belong to us jointly anyway. So I definitely don’t want to separate from her or anything like that...

That I pay for things like the stove, lawn mower, etc. myself is actually clear to me. But for items like the sofa, cupboards, freezer, etc. that are basically worth nothing after 2 years or might be broken after the warranty... that raises the question.
Most people advised me that everything should be paid for jointly. Since I actually wanted to pay for everything myself and hadn’t really questioned that until now, I just wanted to ask how others usually arrange this :) Nothing more!

I would make it dependent on how long you have been together and what the income situation of both of you looks like. If you have been together for a longer time and both have a normal income, I would buy the items for the interior decoration together. In the event of a separation, you will then have to agree on who keeps what, or who pays whom for the current value.

Of course, furniture is worth about 50% less after purchase. But you have to work that out among yourselves. If you buy it, you have the advantage that if she moves out, you keep it. If you do 50/50, she can take half with her and you have to buy the rest new.

Actually, the question "Who pays what" is quite easy to answer. The one who pays is the one who is financially able to contribute. It doesn't have to be all purchased at once. In our youth, we did it so that a joint fund was established, into which both deposited 50 DM every month. Then, at some point, we jointly considered which purchases were due and used the money for that.

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