off-campus finances among roommate -- suggestions?

silvervestersmom
Thu, 14 May 2009 18:10:52 +0000

When I was in college and not living in the sorority house I shared an off campus house with 11 other women. This large group made it easy to share chores…we had 4 committees of 3. Each week 2 committees cleaned the common areas, one committee shopped and cooked for M-F dinners and breakfast/household staples and one committee cleaned the kitchen after dinner. We each put the same amount of $$ in the kitty each week. We just followed the plan that had worked for that house before we lived there. My favorite job was making up menus and that’s where I learned to cook.

I think it is easier for women than men and so I made all my sons learn how to do their own laundry, cooking and cleaning.