Roommate spat? Need advice

EarlVanDorn
Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:55 +0000

Two issues:

1. She promised to buy Apple TV and didn’t. You probably should have raised this issue completely separate from the refrigerator.

2. Even though your post indicates you know it’s wrong, you’ve got this idea that because your roommate has more money than you that you don’t have to pay her back. This is just wrong, and it doesn’t matter that her father paid for the refrigerator unless your dealings were with him on the front-end.

Normally I would say that you should just explain that you haven’t paid her yet because of the promise to buy the Apple TV, and that you think that’s where the $100 should go. But your repeatedly expressed concern that she might enjoy herself with the money you repay her kind of bothers me and suggests that you might be looking at this whole thing through a really warped prism.

If you should decide to make an issue of the Apple TV, I would urge you not to bring up her allowance, that her dad paid for the fridge, or the fact that you are worried she might enjoy herself with the money you repay. It really doesn’t matter if her allowance is $2,000 per day; each roommate should pay his or her share.