Congratulations! Despite the odds, you’ve somehow overcome the possibility—at least temporarily—that you will drift through existence completely and utterly alone. I don’t mean this insincerely: being boo’d up is about the best thing that can happen to us as we rocket towards whatever end this rock has decided for us. So, after weeks, months or years of playing the “Are we going to stay at my house?” and “My roommate’s boyfriend is in town, let’s go to your place” game, you’re finally ready to commit to your partner, and to that decreased rent, and take the plunge by moving in together.

There are a lot of decisions to be made. Whose couch makes the move? Which person’s dishes get thrown into the dumpster? Do you buy new sheets, or do the sheets your mom bought for you when you were 18 make yet another move? Who buys the new shower liner? Is this plunger too gross to move?

But the most emotionally fraught is the existential question of what happens to your individual record collections? Does your collection become “Our records”? How do you organize your collection? Whose version of Let It Be do you keep?

Well, lucky for you, I’ve lived through these tough questions, and I am here to try to make this process as easy as possible for you. There’s no need to breakup with a partner—or worse, have a passive aggressive fight that lingers between you for months on end—over your record collection. Especially after you read this guide.