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I mean, if someone made me dinner, I'd probably do their dishes. It seems fair to me. Maybe YOU should do the dishes, Sassori!
I do the dishes when she makes me food.
But I shouldn't have to also mop the floor when she's dropped food everywhere.
And I'm talking about the dishes from her constant snaking throughout the day. Which is a lot. She is constantly eating.
Fair enough.
Mopping is another thing that I could use work on, but I've started doing it more often recently, even when I don't see anything spilled on the floor. Most the time it feels pointless, but it's probably a good idea. Particularly since I only have a tiny kitchen and a huge bathroom to mop, and I use one of those stupid swisher mop things.
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I'm really against leaving things full of water in the sink.
It ends up being a bowl full of water and food that stagnates.
I hate this too, though I will do it occasionally if there's a hard to clean dish - I'll only ever leave it for an hour or so though before I come back to clean it.
The apartment I stayed in in Edinburgh constantly had a bucket in the sink filled with water. I have no idea why, I guess maybe the plug didn't work? But it meant there was always stagnant gross water sitting in the kitchen.
Also I have a dishwasher in my apartment but have used it maybe twice, after having guests over - even then I usually just quickly do the dishes, it really doesn't take that long.
I'm thinking the reason I'm (apparently) really gross about dishes is I somehow think that since I have a dishwasher, I should use only it, but I suppose it would be just as easy to actually hand wash them as I use them. I'm gonna start doing that now, before I even move, just to make a habit of it.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
It is kind of unfair when one person has like a piece of toast for breakfast, which in terms of dishes is fuck all, and the other makes an elaborate breakfast.
I'm not really concerned too much about fair, to be honest. If anything I'm seeing a roommate as an opportunity to clean up my shit and improve, as well as saving money. I'm pretty confident he'll call me on my shit, but I might as well go in with some of it in order.
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i'll be honest i end up doing a lot of one of my roommates dishes just because i know, even if i tell him, he won't do them, and i like to have the sink empty (and it's usually just a plate or two that takes me an extra 5 seconds to do)
and i figure that's fair because he is always the one cleaning the toilet and bath tub which i have never done
fair trade off
unspoken agreement
it's just bad when i go on vacation, like when i came back from japan after 2 weeks and then uhhh the fucking sinkkkkkk fuckkkk
I feel like the electricity police. I'm constantly turning off all the lights my roommates will just leave on everywhere.
It drives me nuts, but I'm poor. And I'm tired of seeing that bill go up every month. Turn off a light when you leave a room people.
I think this will become me. Whenever I visited him, his house was always full of lights. Lights on everywhere. Xbox on all the time. He just turns the TV off.
Living alone, things were only on when I used them. Lights are barely on, TV/Game consoles off unless I was actively using them. Still got screwed by my electric bill though.
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The roommate who also leaves a mess in the kitchen also shares a bathroom with me.
There are three of us and two bathrooms, but she's constantly in my other roommate's bathroom too because she likes the lighting in that one better. The second roommate desperately does not want her to just move into her bathroom.
my electric bill is around 300 a month in the summer
gas is 400+ in the winter
God knows what it would be if it actually got cold here
I got a 350 electric bill last month in a 1 bedroom 600 square foot apartment.
Apparently my water heater is electric, and it was leaking into the tub. Never mind that I had requested repairs 4 times (although it wasn't in writing), or that it had been leaking forever, evidently that was the cause of my electric bill being 3.5 times what it normally is.
For comparison, my rent is 400 dollars a month.
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darklite_xI'm not an r-tard...Registered Userregular
I use paper plates and plastic silverware so when I'm done with my meal I just toss everything out. The only solid dishware I have is shot glasses and some stove pots. I can deal with messy roommates, but the worst kind of roommate is a stinky roommate. The kind that when you come home you gag on the smell of the place, and it keeps you up at night because you can't ignore the stench. Really sucks when you don't have a choice in roommates.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Since I was 18, even when I didn't have money and flat broke, there was never a time where I couldn't have afforded to live on my own.
For me, it's always been a combination of awful shit that happens to me and my own irresponsibility from when I was younger.
Root canal without insurance, student loans, car loan for a used car (mine finally died after 140k miles), and always stupid small things that happen to me and keep me at very low amounts of money (like the electric bill, needing 4 new tires on the recently purchased car, etc)
I've been living on my own for quite some time now, but I need to get my feet back underneath me and save up, and I could also use some more social interaction.
I've even signed up for income-based-repayment on my student loans, but it only applies to some, so I'm still paying a lot monthly.
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QuetziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderatormod
I wouldn't want to live alone
I've never had a bad roommate experience, and I like other people, and having other people around all the time
I've never had a bad roommate experience, and I like other people, and having other people around all the time
Living alone is kind of awful
It's nice as far as freedom, but depressing as fuck sometimes. There were weeks where the only conversation I had with people were at work. Literal 12-16 hour periods without speaking a word to anyone. Nice at first, shitty as time goes on.
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I feel like the electricity police. I'm constantly turning off all the lights my roommates will just leave on everywhere.
It drives me nuts, but I'm poor. And I'm tired of seeing that bill go up every month. Turn off a light when you leave a room people.
You can save some pretty serious electrical money by switching to CFLs or LED lights, if you haven't already.
And if you live in a civilized area of the country, the utility companies will occasionally subsidize CFLs and make them fantastically fucking cheap; like, well under a dollar apiece.
I feel like the electricity police. I'm constantly turning off all the lights my roommates will just leave on everywhere.
It drives me nuts, but I'm poor. And I'm tired of seeing that bill go up every month. Turn off a light when you leave a room people.
You can save some pretty serious electrical money by switching to CFLs or LED lights, if you haven't already.
And if you live in a civilized area of the country, the utility companies will occasionally subsidize CFLs and make them fantastically fucking cheap; like, well under a dollar apiece.
Even with that, we could also save money by them not leaving lights on all over the apartment when they leave for the day. It's gotten better than it was when I first moved in, but still something they do a lot.
But yeah, I've looked into that. I need to see if all of our apartment has been switched over.
I only remember someone pounding on my door at 3 am once, and I was fucking livid because I ignored it for the first 2 minutes, and he kept going. It turned out to be a mexican dude who had the wrong house. That or else he was planning to rob me and then realized I don't have shit to take.
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I feel like the electricity police. I'm constantly turning off all the lights my roommates will just leave on everywhere.
It drives me nuts, but I'm poor. And I'm tired of seeing that bill go up every month. Turn off a light when you leave a room people.
You can save some pretty serious electrical money by switching to CFLs or LED lights, if you haven't already.
And if you live in a civilized area of the country, the utility companies will occasionally subsidize CFLs and make them fantastically fucking cheap; like, well under a dollar apiece.
I use CFL's exclusively.
I have literally never had one burn out on me. I've had them since I moved out.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I don't see the big deal about leaving a pan full of water in the sink for one night. What are people afraid of, don't you have immune systems? (Stale you are exempt from this question)
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Overnight is not a big deal. It had best be cleaned up by the following afternoon, though.
Also, the best way to conserve electricity is by adjusting your climate control. A few degrees towards the outside temperature makes a huge difference.
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I do the dishes when she makes me food.
But I shouldn't have to also mop the floor when she's dropped food everywhere.
And I'm talking about the dishes from her constant snaking throughout the day. Which is a lot. She is constantly eating.
Fair enough.
Mopping is another thing that I could use work on, but I've started doing it more often recently, even when I don't see anything spilled on the floor. Most the time it feels pointless, but it's probably a good idea. Particularly since I only have a tiny kitchen and a huge bathroom to mop, and I use one of those stupid swisher mop things.
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I hate this too, though I will do it occasionally if there's a hard to clean dish - I'll only ever leave it for an hour or so though before I come back to clean it.
The apartment I stayed in in Edinburgh constantly had a bucket in the sink filled with water. I have no idea why, I guess maybe the plug didn't work? But it meant there was always stagnant gross water sitting in the kitchen.
Also I have a dishwasher in my apartment but have used it maybe twice, after having guests over - even then I usually just quickly do the dishes, it really doesn't take that long.
THANKS FOR HELPING ME SORT OUT MY SHIT @EveryoneWhoIsReallyAggressiveAboutDishes
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Satans..... hints.....
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It drives me nuts, but I'm poor. And I'm tired of seeing that bill go up every month. Turn off a light when you leave a room people.
and i figure that's fair because he is always the one cleaning the toilet and bath tub which i have never done
fair trade off
unspoken agreement
it's just bad when i go on vacation, like when i came back from japan after 2 weeks and then uhhh the fucking sinkkkkkk fuckkkk
I think this will become me. Whenever I visited him, his house was always full of lights. Lights on everywhere. Xbox on all the time. He just turns the TV off.
Living alone, things were only on when I used them. Lights are barely on, TV/Game consoles off unless I was actively using them. Still got screwed by my electric bill though.
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gas is 400+ in the winter
God knows what it would be if it actually got cold here
There are three of us and two bathrooms, but she's constantly in my other roommate's bathroom too because she likes the lighting in that one better. The second roommate desperately does not want her to just move into her bathroom.
I just desperately don't want to live with girls.
I got a 350 electric bill last month in a 1 bedroom 600 square foot apartment.
Apparently my water heater is electric, and it was leaking into the tub. Never mind that I had requested repairs 4 times (although it wasn't in writing), or that it had been leaking forever, evidently that was the cause of my electric bill being 3.5 times what it normally is.
For comparison, my rent is 400 dollars a month.
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That's fucking ridiculous.
Satans..... hints.....
Since I was 18, even when I didn't have money and flat broke, there was never a time where I couldn't have afforded to live on my own.
For me, it's always been a combination of awful shit that happens to me and my own irresponsibility from when I was younger.
Root canal without insurance, student loans, car loan for a used car (mine finally died after 140k miles), and always stupid small things that happen to me and keep me at very low amounts of money (like the electric bill, needing 4 new tires on the recently purchased car, etc)
I've been living on my own for quite some time now, but I need to get my feet back underneath me and save up, and I could also use some more social interaction.
I've even signed up for income-based-repayment on my student loans, but it only applies to some, so I'm still paying a lot monthly.
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I've never had a bad roommate experience, and I like other people, and having other people around all the time
Living alone is kind of awful
But I could not do that. I need doors.
Let me go hide in this room and do things while you go do things in that room. Maybe we'll meet up later? Okay. Break.
It's nice as far as freedom, but depressing as fuck sometimes. There were weeks where the only conversation I had with people were at work. Literal 12-16 hour periods without speaking a word to anyone. Nice at first, shitty as time goes on.
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And if you live in a civilized area of the country, the utility companies will occasionally subsidize CFLs and make them fantastically fucking cheap; like, well under a dollar apiece.
I am excited to have a roommate. It'll be fun, I think. Sure there'll be disagreements, but for the most part? Fun times!
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I could die a happy man
Living alone is the best
Like, I also go out with friends and go to bars and parties and whatever
But it's nice to have the passive social interaction of someone pounding on your door at 3 AM to show you something weird they found on the internet
no it isn't
Yes, it is nice sometimes! But not for extended periods. Human interaction is nice many times.
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no it isn't
Even with that, we could also save money by them not leaving lights on all over the apartment when they leave for the day. It's gotten better than it was when I first moved in, but still something they do a lot.
But yeah, I've looked into that. I need to see if all of our apartment has been switched over.
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so pleased
its a lot of money for me but 3 days in it is worth it. I have had some insane fucking roommates.
I use CFL's exclusively.
I have literally never had one burn out on me. I've had them since I moved out.
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Do you leave the toilet unflushed?
Satans..... hints.....
if it's brown, let it mellow
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ditto
i gotta have a place where i can go and just shut off the world for as long as i need too
but that means you had money
enough money to pay for an apartment
Also, the best way to conserve electricity is by adjusting your climate control. A few degrees towards the outside temperature makes a huge difference.
i enjoy my privacy
Yeah. I honestly have no idea what it would be like to go back to sharing a bedroom.
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