Roomates...I tell ya!
My roomate, bless her little person heart, does not clean worth crap around here. It's always kind of been like that, but you know once something happens that bothers you, it really starts to get on your nerves over time. I super cleaned the whole apartment by myself last friday, and the place is already a mess. I will make comments like "we should
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EXACTLY why I started using this again. I didn't feel comfortable complaining too extensively about Mimu's sister on facebook. Nor do I think it's appropriate to go on and on about my dreams there. To many people read it and some of my dreams are really personal and involve drama that goes on in real life, or ongoing themes or recurring people and places, that I don't really want like, say, my high school classmates to read and think and comment and make judgments on me from. Especially because most of them were really judgmental stuck up people.
Anyway, yeah! about the whole messy roommate thing! Fortunately for me, Mimu's sister is leaving in a month or so when her working holiday visa expires and she has to return to Korea. I'm sure she's going to leave a lot of her sh*t here for us to deal with, but at least we'll have that liberty to do with it as we please (like mail it back to her, toss it out, tear it to shreds, burn it, sell it, keep it, etc.).
You could try to come up with a schedule, and rotate it. Like MWF you do the kitchen and she does the living room, and then the other days of the week and T,TH,Sat it's the other way around, and Sunday you get to be lazy. Or something like that. That way when someone doesn't do their job they really ARE accountable for it because it was absolutely their responsibility for it, without question. Make her sign it, like on the calandar or some place where you can see it XD
That way it's like cooperative and truly fair. You can work out details like what to do with garbage, what to do with the bathroom, and what to do when you have guests or parties - like when clean-ups are much more than what they are usually. Being able to sit down togethre and agree on some basic rules or schedules like that would make it more of a cooperative effort instead of like "you do this and you need to be like this instead" which is so accusative and anyone is going to be defensive and argumentative, even if they know they are guilty =_=
You could always kick her out too, or look for a different apartment. I'd try to work something out though first *nod* You could end up losing a friend that way.
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You should tell her that too - that you want to work something out together and focus on fixing this problem because you want to continue being friends and enjoy being roommates otherwise, and therefore don't want this messiness issue to become a reason to really get irritated with each other and stop being friends. You know, show her that you DO have good intentions and you appreciate the friendship you have, and that's why you want to solve this problem. Not because you're finicky about cleaning, necessarily... even if you are though.
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