Rooming with other people for the first time in the twilight years of your teens and early twenties is a grab bag of experiences. No one has any idea how to best properly live life yet (not that we ever figure that one—if someone reading this has, please let me know), and everything is constantly changing around them. Decisions are made on the fly, with consequences being an afterthought. You might meet someone one week and hit it off, deciding to room for an entire year the next week—oh, what…

Caught red-handed

College presents many challenges to young adults, but nobody talks about the struggles of the first few nights sleeping outside your childhood bedrooms. While we all had sleepovers and trips with friends and school, that is not the same as completely moving out of our home and regularly sleeping in a different bed, and that is not an easy experience for young people. On my first night in my dorm room, the first thing I noticed was how loud the street outside was, mainly because of all the cars…

Neighborly parking disputes are no new thing, but they almost constitute “friendly fire” when they take shape between members of the same household. Still, this just speaks volumes to the propensity for people to be petty and selfish, trying to shape the world and those around them into a form that best suits them independent of any moral or even logical reason. At this point, you probably already have someone in mind who fits this description, it's probably even a former roommate, as rooming s…

Surely we've all had our fair share of terrible roommates. The kind of people who actually see themselves as the landlords and act like everything they say must be followed. When it comes to horrible roommate experiences, I think I won the gold medal. I once had to share a tiny 4-bedroom apartment with 7 roommates, meaning I had to share a room with two other people. The apartment was constantly messy, there were always dishes in the sink, and no one was willing to commit to any household task…

Living as an adult with other adults is difficult, especially since there will inevitably be shared costs for the household, and people have different ways of living and different ideas about what is and isn't an appropriate cost. Not to mention, when it comes to things like the temperature of the home and the costs associated with it, people naturally have different ideas about what is “comfortable" or “tolerable.” The risk of people being absolutely clueless on how to properly function on the…

RTS stands for 'Revenge Through Shredder'

As a gamer myself, and having lived with other gamers, once that mechanical keyboard gets clacking and the team call-outs start rolling in intense moments, it's going to be noisy for everyone else around you. With absolute certainty, when you're intently focused on something, you underestimate the amount of noise you're making. In the early hours of the morning, these sounds are amplified by the relative quiet of the world around us. And when you add paper-thin walls to the equation, you're goi…

There is a big difference between living with roommates and having a landlord and living with your landlord as a roommate. Nobody wants to do the latter, for starters. Having roommates is hard enough, imagine how unbearable it would be to have your landlord as a roommate, watching over your every move. If you are a landlord, and you are looking for roommates, I would definitely recommend telling them what they are walking into, because they deserve to know. That is what I would tell the girl in…

Anyone who has ever lived with another person had to deal with some kind of drama related to food. It is simply unavoidable. We are all so specific about our food, what, when, where, and how we eat, so when someone else gets thrown into the mix, chaos is bound to ensue. There are a few different approaches when it comes to food in a shared space. You can either buy everything together and split the costs, you can share nothing and have each of you buy their own food and keep it completely separ…

When you're looking for a roommate, there are a few key things to consider before inviting someone to come live in your home. Are they hygienic? Are they courteous of your sleep cycle? Do they wash their dishes? Will they permanently alter the aesthetic of your property with a secret remodel through an elaborately deceptive web of lies?

Living with your best friends can go one of two ways – Either extremely great or terribly wrong, and you can assume that most people will tell you that it usually goes the latter way. There is something about sharing a space that is just so specific for everyone involved, that even if you love each other and enjoy each other's company, it does not mean that you will enjoy living together. The main problem is that you will not know until you try, and that is why most people would recommend simpl…

When young adults first move out of their parents' homes, many are faced with the question of whether or not they should move in with roommates. Although most people don't really have a choice, because very few can actually manage financially to live alone when they are that young, even if you were given the choice, it can be a difficult decision. On one hand, living with roommates means you are never lonely, you can make great friends and create such fun experiences simply by sharing a living…

Finding a good roommate is like searching for a needle in a haystack… it's difficult, to say the least. Even if things are good for a while, they almost always end up going south. People don't know how to communicate, let alone clean, and they can owe you money they never intend to return. So if you're living with someone you can stand, count yourself lucky. This housemate (OP) uploaded a few screenshots of a bizarre conversation he had with his roommate, who was livid after finding out he was…

Living with roommates isn't easy. We, especially as grown adults, simply were never meant to be sharing living spaces and close quarters with other grown human beings. This is especially true when you're young and move out of your parent's house for the first time. It turns out many of us at that point have yet to learn the essential basic skills that make a functioning human and half-decent roommate. It's generally appealing how many people don't understand the basics of being respectful of ot…

This roommate taught their 'friend' a lesson about consequences that they'll likely never forget.