off-campus finances among roommate -- suggestions?

S0ad
Thu, 14 May 2009 17:23:04 +0000

I lived with two others this semester. They had a similar diet and split food. I have a picky diet and bought my own food. Took up 3/4 of the bottom shelf in the fridge & one drawer.

We obviously split all the electric, heat, etc evenly.

Stuff like towel paper, toilet paper, dish soap, cleaning supplies, etc. was split evenly every month. Whoever was out would buy it, and then request the money.

We also shared food if someone was out, with no repayment. Like if I was out of mustard or something. Or we just borrowed something of the other’s if we rarely used it and didn’t want to buy our own (sugar for instance).

We didn’t really have any issues. We did our own dishes, and cleaned up after the mess we made.

As for furniture, this place wasn’t furnished and everyone just brought things that their family had. We shared appliances. We had separate pots, but I cook a ton, but had no issue with them using my stuff. I would use their plates sometimes, and them mine. Depended upon what was clean.