Comments on: Flowcharts for a positive apartment-sharing experience

By: Beatus Mongous

Beatus Mongous — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:02:45 +0000

Very true.

And then, there’s the guy that steals your food WHILE you’re eating it. We had a guy at work that used to just take half of whatever you were eating right off your plate or from your hand. One time, I was eating a tasty sandwich, and he came in, grabbed a knife, and proceded to cut the sandwich in half. As he picked it up and bit into it, I said, “Sweet! I wasn’t sure what to do with the moldy part.”

By: theo

theo — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:44:32 +0000

Arrangements are risky too. Sure, if you’ve got a roommate who eats basically the same quality of food as you do, and you both shop about the same amount, it’ll work most of the time.
You can guarantee though, there’ll be at least one occasion where you’ve made plans for dinner, and you’re sure you have enough milk/meat/cheese/eggs etc. left, only to get home and discover they’ve been eaten. And you’d get pissed at your housemate then, even though he wasn’t expecting it.
Easier to be a little bit anal about it: feel free to take a little milk for a cup of tea, or a couple of slices of bread for toast, if I have plenty, but as a general rule, don’t eat stuff you didn’t buy.

By: Nunavut Guy

Nunavut Guy — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:40:51 +0000

We live in a small hamlet in the arctic.If we flush every time there is something in the bowl,then we would be going to the lake daily for drinking water.

Normal changes.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:13:22 +0000

I’m glad I don’t have roommates to kill..

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:10:41 +0000

That’s fine if you are both happy with the arrangement – then it’s sharing.

Otherwise, it’s stealing.

By: JoelKim

JoelKim — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:28:12 +0000

Meh. It all comes out in the wash. My roommate and I rarely ask each other before we eat the food the other person bought, because in the long run it really does. not. matter. Why spend so much time stressing about it?

By: Mona

Mona — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:07:19 +0000

“They’d be totes cool…” LOL

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:07:13 +0000

I have no qualms or quibbles with either of these flowcharts.

By: shesajem

shesajem — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:03:36 +0000

I need one of these in my house for turning ALL the lights off!

By: GhostWriter

GhostWriter — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:30:01 +0000

“9 months worth of unflushed toilets”?
I think I saw that episode on “Hoarders”…

By: meeper

meeper — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:25:07 +0000

My guess is that the roomate(s) were imbibing without contributing to the party fund.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:48:21 +0000

A low flow toilet (dual flush if I can afford it) is on my list when I renovate the bathrooms for percisely this reason. Never had a backwash issue……

Jami, I hear ya. That’s why I flat-out refuse to let it mellow when I have guests over. I’ll not do the laundry or dishes first. But sometimes, depending on weather, I either need to put less strain on the well or be careful not to overload the septic drain field, and there’s only the two of us in the house, and that’s when the yellow mellows.

But I’m guessing that this isn’t an issue for the note-writer. In this case, I suspect roommate is just nasty.

By: Gwan

Gwan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:20:49 +0000

Hmm, I took that to mean all bets were off if there was a party going on, but now I see that has an arrow leading back to asking if you purchased it. Which begs the question* of why they bothered asking whether it was a party or not…

*Relax, pedants, I know that this is technically not the correct way to use ‘begs the question’, I just don’t care.

By: The White Clouds of Opium

The White Clouds of Opium — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 05:26:18 +0000

No desert dwellers in this thread?