ground rules

Sex and the Three Cs

I found through Twitter a some good advice on how to live with housemates in an article, “Sex in the Ville: Roommate Rules” by Tara Carr. (No longer available on the Internet.)  It’s the three Cs: Communicate Cooperate Consideration Communicate your feelings and your annoyances. Cooperate by realizing that you can pitch in and do [...]

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Sex and Your Housemate

One word. Don’t. Don’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’s fling is another person’s crush and [...]

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Methods to divide chores

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 – [...]

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Messy Housemates

Sometimes I find myself grumbling about mess in the house, something along the lines of “Why doesn’t he EVER clean up after himself?”  Years of experience have taught me to look again. Oh, I say to myself, “That’s mine and that’s mine and that’s mine..” It is a very natural human tendency to look at [...]

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Cleanliness – the Kitchen

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’t have the same standards of cleanliness and/or guidelines are not followed. It [...]

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