Roommate Disagreements

Roommates suck!

For the most part having roommates is awesome. You can save on expenses, live in a nicer place, have built in friends (sometimes) and it is definitely not lonely, unless everyone you live with is a hermit...

However,

Listen to your friends and friends of friends when they tell you

DO NOT LIVE WITH THEM!!!

It has been about a month since I moved in with my sister and our significant others (not the greatest idea having only been with said SO's for about 4 months) and I'm about ready to "Hop the nope train to Fuckthatville!" But from the beginning I wasn't on board with her boyfriend living with us. Because I very much dislike him.

I promise that my "How to NOT be a Shitty Fucking Roommate" post isn't going to be super biased though. As much as I do not like him, these are legitimate things that make your roommates want you gone.

Do not leave your dishes in the sink! Like really... if you are old enough to live on your own, you are old enough to pick up a sponge. Especially if it's a grand total of 4 dishes.
Maybe you don't have to wash it right this second, but you could at least do it within 2 hours. Otherwise you're going to have a serious bug problem with no one to blame but yourself.

Cut down on the crap you own. If you can't afford to live in your very own apartment, then it's probably best that you don't bring everything you've ever bought, received or inherited since the time of your conception. Sharing space with other people means exactly that. 
You are SHARING SPACE.
Surprise! If you are moving in with multiple people, take a leaf out of residence roommate suggestions, and decide who will be bringing what. You do not need to have a complete set of dishes for each person within the living space. This only contributes to the dishes that can and will pile up in the sink. The less dishes you own the less you have to wash.

Decide how food will be divided/shared. Is everyone buying their own food? Is there a rotating shopping schedule? In my opinion sharing food is easiest; you don't have to worry about eating something that isn't yours and food is fair game. On the flip side, if you are rotating through a shopping schedule those shopping need to make sure they are buying things that everyone can/will eat. If you have picky eaters get some of their staples, and get stuff that you can throw together for lunches if you're running late.
If you decide that everyone will shop for themselves, then need to make sure that the space in the fridge/cupboards is split up equally. You cannot fill half the fridge if there are 3 people sharing.

Remember that other people live here. You don't get to take up an entire table in the common area, and you can't take up the entire kitchen and only make food for yourself. Feel free to spread out in the living room, but put your things away when you are done. Take over the kitchen, but share your creations.
Blast your music, but rotate the speaker control every once in a while.

Sometimes I get to the point where I would like to just call a strike and NOT clean up after people, which after a month I've pretty much started doing. I happen to work opposite shifts of my roommates, so I get time to myself in the mornings (it's awesome) but I generally spend that time doing dishes from a dinner that I didn't eat. However, deciding that you are also going to be a shit roommate doesn't solve anything. It just turns your place into a garbage pit. Shitty attitudes breed shitty attitudes. 

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and don't be a fuck.