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	<title>Sharing Housing &#187; ground rules</title>
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	<description>The Complete Guide to Finding and Keeping Good Housemates</description>
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		<title>Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Have Sex with Your Roommate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fourth principle for living with housemates successfully is &#8220;The Incest Taboo.&#8221; Here is an excellent first-person account of how easy it is to fall into to sleeping with your housemate. And then the heartache that follows.  It&#8217;s a scenario that is not uncommon as the comments make clear. Some think she should have stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Simple Secrets to Roommate Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like this post by Laura Drucker over on The Daily Muse. Her four simple secrets are a bit different from the four principles for successful home sharing described in &#8220;Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates&#8221; - but they aren&#8217;t far off. Her&#8217;s are: Share Your Baked Goods, Don&#8217;t Take Without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Homesharers: More Stories about Good Housemates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real People Sharing Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Share programs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Guardian in the UK, some more great stories about people who are home sharing. The elder homeowner  gets to remain living in their own home. The younger home seeker has a place to live usually in exchange for an agree upon amount of work. The six arrangements featured in the article will give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Some People Find Themselves in Housemate Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=1898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The road to hell is paved with good intentions.&#8221; It&#8217;s hell to live with someone who doesn&#8217;t respect your space, who uses your things without permission, who eats your food, who doesn&#8217;t pay the bills, who has a different routine than you. Or, even more simply, someone you just don&#8217;t like. One route to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roomie, It&#8217;s Cold!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/roomie-its-cold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compromise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hot do you like it? How cool can you live with? What are you willing to pay for? Are you and your roommate in agreement about how high the heat should be turned up, the air conditioning turned down? Is the thermostat an area of contention? The temperature of your home is a basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and the Three Cs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found through Twitter a some good advice on how to live with housemates in an article, &#8220;Sex in the Ville: Roommate Rules&#8221; by Tara Carr. (No longer available on the Internet.)  It&#8217;s the three Cs: Communicate Cooperate Consideration Communicate your feelings and your annoyances. Cooperate by realizing that you can pitch in and do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Your Housemate</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/sex-and-your-housemate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sex-and-your-housemate</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/sex-and-your-housemate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One word. Don&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t even think of it.  Do yourself a favor. For housemates to live together comfortably, it is good to impose a complete and utter taboo on sex with each other. Otherwise things go wonky.  The emotions that get stirred up are deep and painful. One person&#8217;s fling is another person&#8217;s crush and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methods to divide chores</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/methods-to-divide-chores/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=methods-to-divide-chores</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/methods-to-divide-chores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaning house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every home needs to be cleaned.  When people share housing the question arises about how the common areas that everyone uses are cleaned.  Here are three methods that work. Hire a Pro If you can afford it, the easiest, best way to get the house cleaned is to have someone else do it. Seriously &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messy Housemates</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/messy-housemates/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=messy-housemates</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/messy-housemates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I find myself grumbling about mess in the house, something along the lines of &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t he EVER clean up after himself?&#8221;  Years of experience have taught me to look again. Oh, I say to myself, &#8220;That&#8217;s mine and that&#8217;s mine and that&#8217;s mine..&#8221; It is a very natural human tendency to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleanliness – the Kitchen</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/cleanliness-the-kitchen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cleanliness-the-kitchen</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen is the most used common room in a home. When there are housemates, the kitchen is often the place for casual conversation, laughter, and sharing.  It can also be a source of irritation and anger when members of a household don&#8217;t have the same standards of cleanliness and/or guidelines are not followed. It [...]]]></description>
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