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	<title>Sharing Housing &#187; ground rules</title>
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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>
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		<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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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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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 this article, &#8220;Sex in the Ville: Roommate Rules&#8221; by Tara Carr.  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 it rather than waiting for your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Your Housemate</title>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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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>
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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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		<title>Golden Rule</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/golden-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ground rules]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Rule &#8211; &#8220;do unto others what you would have them do to you&#8221; is key to living well with your housemates.  If you don&#8217;t like to walk into a kitchen with dirty dishes in the sink, don&#8217;t leave dirty dishes in the sink.  If you want to be told when a housemate is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private space vs. Common space</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/private-space-vs-common-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cleaning house]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://test.sharinghousing.com/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For four years I had a housemate who was an incredible slob in his room.  There was stuff all over the floor with barely a path to his bedroom. Did I ever say anything to him about that? No! That was his room to do with as he pleased.  He was perfectly neat in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifestyle Types</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/lifestyle-types/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 01:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Good Housemates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ground rules]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Housemate Heaven is a website that presents 16 &#8220;lifestyle types&#8221;. The reader is asked to pick the type that best describes themselves.  The 16 types are based on four basic categories: how personal property is shared, cleanliness of the house, the level of sociability between housemates and the attitude towards guests.  It&#8217;s an attempt to [...]]]></description>
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