By now, you’re probably starting to get pretty familiar with your housemates. Never before has there been more opportunity to enjoy eating, drinking, making endless cups of tea and just hanging out together.
But multiple warm bodies in one confined space can test the most solid of buddies. There’s just so much to try the patience. There’s the fact that someone secretly drank the last of your milk. Everyone else has more fridge space than you. Nobody ever washes up, hence the weird mould formations in all the pans. Someone keeps putting the heating on all the time. Two of the housemates never buy toilet roll.
So what to do? You could leave a selection of angry post-it notes dotted around the house. You could call a house meeting and share a few ‘home’ truths. You could take the offenders to one side and give them a piece of your mind. But if you don’t want to end up looking like the bad guy, you could try these less confrontational options…
Solution 1
Someone drank your milk? Suggest starting a kitty for household essentials. Everyone can put the same amount in each week and if there’s money left over at the end of the year you can treat yourselves to a night out.
Solution 2
You don’t have enough fridge space? Chances are your housemates probably don’t think they have enough space either. Try allocating a shelf or half a shelf per person.
Solution 3
Nobody washes up? Start using paper plates and live on a diet of sandwiches and finger food. Added bonus, you need never cook again.
Solution 4
Heating always on? Turn down the radiators when no one is looking. Not a perfect solution, but it will temporarily reduce the subtropical temperatures.
Solution 5
You’ve been singlehandedly supplying the whole house with loo roll? Refer to Solution 1. Problem solved.