my roommate has been trying to get a house meeting together for some time now. we've all got different schedules and i think i'm out of the house most. the others are night jobbers so we're on different sleeping schedules. so he thought it best he just talk to us individually. i don't know if this is a dictatorship but he said that we're changing the cleaning schedule to have "incentives" although i am not sure that is the right word. basically, if you don't do your chores by sunday you pay $15. $10 to the person behind you on the list and $5 to a house fund. there is no way i can afford this and there is no way i can get my chores done every week. there are 4 rotating chores: kitchen (worst and hardest), bathroom (2nd most), living room/laundry (lame and easy), garbage (once a week, easy). most of the time i do not even know what day it is so being on a cleaning schedule really doesn't work for me.
sure, cleaning the house is important but when i clean, it's a deep clean that you can tell the difference afterwards. i don't think it's necessary every week. if you've seen my room you know i am not even a neat person. i don't consider myself "dirty" but i'm in no way neat. i do have anal tendencies when cleaning and organizing but it doesn't bug me that my room looks like a hurricane just went through. i have better things to do than upkeep the visual aesthetics of my living space. i don't mind stepping over things to get to my bed, then throwing random things on the floor that have been occupying that space. my room is about 8x12 so there isn't much room. i have too much stuff and i know this. i'm working on it. my new place will be smaller.
speaking of, i'm going to move out. i can't deal with cleaning schedules and such. especially cleaning schedules with "disincentives", if there is such a word. two gals from work want to find a house to live in together. it's gonna happen at the end of september. one of them is in eugene till i find a place and the other is at her mom's and wants to wait till she pays off her credit card. so far i haven't found much that will fit our needs and wants but there is still a month so even if i found something it wouldn't work out. we don't want to pay more than $1200 for a 3 BR which is actually kind of hard to find in a good location. so i'll keep looking cause i need to move out!
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heh heh, you said "anal tendencies" heh heh.
yeah, i'm with you on the cleaning, there are a few things that i do weekly (laundry every sunday, swiffering the floor, roomba-ing the two bedroom carpets), but all other cleaning chores i only do as needed, and then i do it damn good! of course, it's only me living here so things don't get very dirty and i know when i'm making things dirty, but when you're living with other people that can be rough. still, it's probably best for everyone involved to keep the school-like aspects out of it, i.e. schedules, merits and demerits, no one wants to feel like a teenager living under the parents' rules again, no matter that it comes from probable good intentions.
well, good luck with the house hunting, that's exciting stuff right? i'm always amazed at mainland prices, $1200 for a 3 BR? wow. my friend had a 3 BR for $2000 and that was a GREAT deal. man if i moved to the mainland i could live in a mansion for what i'm paying here probably!
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