When five people are reaching for thick pajamas and extra blankets during summer, finding a comfortable compromise with the AC can become a challenge. I totally understand that the heat can become unbearable. By the end of August, we are tired of it and want to find a solution to it as soon as possible. …
Seguir leyendo Californian roommate insists on keeping the AC at 65ºF despite her 5 housemates freezing every single night: ‘She claims it affects her bodily autonomy’
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Entitled roommate moved their mom into shared office without warning despite splitting household expenses 50/50: ‘We feel very disrespected’
If you’re sharing a home and you split every cost 50/50, shouldn’t you also get a say before someone else moves in? Let me answer that for you: of course you have a say in that! Living with roommates can get very tricky from time to time, and it requires a lot of patience when …
Seguir leyendo Entitled roommate moved their mom into shared office without warning despite splitting household expenses 50/50: ‘We feel very disrespected’
Couple uses roommate’s private bathroom despite having a master bedroom with their own en-suite, calls her “petty and hostile” when she asks them to stop
Sharing a house requires compromise, but boundaries get blurry when convenience starts overriding an agreement everyone made from the start. If there’s a type of relationship that’s very unique and special is the roommate one. There’s something so strange about moving in with a person you don’t know and somehow start sharing with them every …
Seguir leyendo Couple uses roommate’s private bathroom despite having a master bedroom with their own en-suite, calls her “petty and hostile” when she asks them to stop
Woman yells at roommate for disposing of pasta water while helping her with dinner: ‘Did no one teach you you need the pasta water?’
Do you keep your pasta water? If you’re a chef-y type of person, you might know all about the way the starch from the pasta water helps thicken and bind sauces. But if you’re not, you’re probably draining it and moving on as if nothing happened. This is what I did for most of my …
Seguir leyendo Woman yells at roommate for disposing of pasta water while helping her with dinner: ‘Did no one teach you you need the pasta water?’
Mom accuses sister of making her and her 5-year-old daughter homeless because she’s moving out of their shared apartment in a year: ‘She makes $14 an hour.’
How is she making her homeless if she’s giving her plenty of time to make new living arrangements? It’s not uncommon for single parents to expect someone in their family to fill the role of a spouse in their household. A single dad might treat his sister like a surrogate mother figure, expecting her to …
Seguir leyendo Mom accuses sister of making her and her 5-year-old daughter homeless because she’s moving out of their shared apartment in a year: ‘She makes $14 an hour.’
Gross roommate refuses to clean her dishes for 10 days, dishes attract fruit flies and eventually maggots: ‘I refuse to cave and clean another persons dishes.’
She went on vacation for days, and didn’t wash her dishes before she left. What would you do if your roommate didn’t wash their dishes before leaving for vacation? Would you bite your tongue and wash their dishes for them, or would you refuse to wash their dishes and let them sit in the sink …
Seguir leyendo Gross roommate refuses to clean her dishes for 10 days, dishes attract fruit flies and eventually maggots: ‘I refuse to cave and clean another persons dishes.’
27-year-old shares grocery costs with roommate, protests when she tries to split the bill for her boyfriend’s birthday cake: ‘It’s added up to real money’
Should people who live together also split all of their living costs? The forced intimacy that can come from having roommates is not a life experience for the weak. Coping with all the quirks and home habits of somebody who could very well have been a stranger when you moved in together is a process …
Seguir leyendo 27-year-old shares grocery costs with roommate, protests when she tries to split the bill for her boyfriend’s birthday cake: ‘It’s added up to real money’
Bad Roommate Installs Alarm on Pantry Door to Track How Much His Roommate Eats: ‘He Questioned Why I Opened it Four Times in One Night.’
He’s convinced that she’s eating his food, but she’s doing nothing of the sort! When it comes to roommates, you don’t want a control freak or a slob. You want someone who is willing to take responsibility for cleaning the house but doesn’t freak out if it takes you more than 12 hours to do …
Seguir leyendo Bad Roommate Installs Alarm on Pantry Door to Track How Much His Roommate Eats: ‘He Questioned Why I Opened it Four Times in One Night.’
Roommate Lets Her Boyfriend DJ in Shared Apartment After Midnight, Even Though Her Roommate Had a 5:30 AM Shift The Next Day
Would you be able to live with a roommate who thinks that this is acceptable? It can be really inconvenient to date when you have roommates. Your roommates might get annoyed that your partner is sleeping over most nights of the week, using up all of the water, and sitting on the communal couch all …
Seguir leyendo Roommate Lets Her Boyfriend DJ in Shared Apartment After Midnight, Even Though Her Roommate Had a 5:30 AM Shift The Next Day
Heavy sleeper uses rice cooker as 5:30am alarm clock, annoys roommate: ‘He said I should be grateful there’s free rice’
Do we always have to put up with the quirks of the people we live with? A roommate relationship can sometimes be a strange one. This is a person whom you do not necessarily know that well, but you have a front row seat to their most intimate domestic habits, and vice versa. You either …
Seguir leyendo Heavy sleeper uses rice cooker as 5:30am alarm clock, annoys roommate: ‘He said I should be grateful there’s free rice’