off-campus finances among roommate -- suggestions?

bhmomma
Tue, 19 May 2009 09:45:42 +0000

I shared an apt from soph year on, and had several roommates come and go, summer sub lets, boyfriends over, sharing of utilities-all issues discussed by prior posters.
I thought we hit the jackpot when I had a replacement roommate move in, who I knew from freshmen year dorms, whose family owned a small family farm and grocery stand-SCORE!! When ever she went home, we were replenished, often with load of seasonal items they didn’t want in the store as well. Passover over-boxes of matzah! Easter Sunday dinner complete-boxes of lamb shaped butter in our freezer!

However even that didn’t make up for the roommate who developed bulimia and left us hiding our food in our sweater drawer and whispering about what to do…

You can’t preplan for every contingency.