Two icloud accounts- probs

I've got two iCloud accounts, poss even three, not done intentionally but historically through ignorance of how the whole iCloud, Apple ID, iTunes, iMessage thing works. My Mac is signed in to one account but my iPhone is signed into another. I want to just use one for obvious reasons to have common contacts on each. The thing is then when I go to sign out of one on my Mac it says that Photo Stream photos and Documents & Data stored in iCloud will be removed from this iPhone. I'm wondering what's the best thing to do??

I think you start by analyzing what you have in the cloud on each account, so you can see what is easiest to move to a different account. If you don't actually have photos or documents in he cloud on that one account, then you're just seeing some boilerplate warning that doesn't matter. You need to know one way or the other.
There is at some level a way to combine IDs; my sister had that done by someone at Apple when she had a very old iTunes ID and a newer one from her phone. However, the iTunes one wasn't really anything to do with the cloud.

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3. Scroll to the very bottom, press DELETE ACCOUNT. Before you panic, this is not going to Delete your iCloud account. It is simply going to delete the bridge that connects your device to the iCloud.
4. Choose to KEEP ITEMS ON YOUR DEVICE if asked.
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Kind regards
Edward
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