#64

grumpiness (often)
smoking fatties in the living room (rare)
doing laundry too often (do it once a week, but my housemates will often do it like once a month. don’t understand how)
snoring

#65

Stuff that’s come up over the years:

  • I’m really clean, but not especially tidy, so wherever I live is always gleaming and smells nice, but will have a big stack of books and art materials and the like here and there, but arranged in a way that looks somewhat nice. So if you’re the sort of person that must have everything in its special place or hidden away, but doesn’t care about dust, we’re probably going to piss each other off.

  • Large and always increasing number of houseplants

  • Always inviting people over

  • If you’re a minimalist or the sort of person who thinks digital has superceded real items, I’ve got large piles of books, records and art and music stuff to piss you off

  • I collect mugs and glasses over the course of the day, and leave them around until I collect and wash them up at the end of the day. No mouldy cups though.

  • Every so often I like to have a massive clean and move all the furniture to new places. Lots of people hate this.

  • There’s going to be photo chemicals in the kitchen, and possibly films hung up on a washing line to dry. Screen and lino printng stuff too sometimes. I clear up any messes very quickly though. Some people also hate this.

#66

Came home to our bedroom having been completely rearranged a couple of months ago, was irked frankly (and still am by the lack of somewhere to charge my phone overnight whilst keeping it in arm’s reach for pre/post-sleep browsing)

#67

Ah, see when you have the massive re-arrange, you always need to pre-empt these things and figure out how to make everything as convenient as possible. While moving all the furniture and possibly all the framed pictures on the wall too.

#68

Yeah, this was definitely an element missing in this case (as was any kind of consultation or expression of any desire to have a re-arrange)

#69

You sound like an amalgamation of my housemates! They’re all good things I think.

#70

When I’ve lived with people who do music/art/whatever we’ve always just bumped along happily as long as they’re not a total slob or massively inconsiderate. It’s been different with the people who aren’t into that stuff though. I guess they don’t get why you’d have that stuff round the house and see it as an inconvenience.

#71

oh man

my ex used to do the rearrange the furniture without warning thing

I would find it hard to conceal my irritation - as I would at least like to be consulted on something like that. It would cause a row as she expected enthusiasm and praise

#72

I’d agree with that observation. I live with four other musicians/artists who are totally fine with records and books being left out in a tidy way. Some previous housemates haven’t been so accepting of that.

There’s always a harmonium, a Bomtempi and a bass left in my sitting room as well. Doesn’t bother me one bit, I get to play them!

#73

Yeah exactly- a previous nice house, my housemate saw a neighbour disposing of a piano, and asked if she could have it, and I came home to a piano in the living room. Everyone in the house was like “Yeah! Free piano!” but I bet that would piss a lot of people off.

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#74

i’d be fucking delighted

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#75

Staying in bed until 6 or something is deemed “antisocial” in some way.
I also smoke too much without opening a window, I’m obviously too busy for that as illustrated by my last point.

#76

Did you live with Theo? :slight_smile:

#77

there’s a spray you buy that you just spray on after every use and you never need to clean it or something.

but you have to remember to spray it. and that is not humanly possible.

#78

Hah, no bf who worked in the tech industry and got increasingly sucked in to the weird mindset of everything was centred round the computer + use your (excess) money to make any kind of inconvenience in life go away possibly by some kind of app. He was a bit of a shit in lots of other ways too (had just made a big effort to seem nice until I moved in with him), and incredibly lazy about anything that wouldn’t earn him money, so I only lived with him for 6 months.

I think it’s much easier to get away with being a total fuck-up if you’ve got money, and not have to bother to learn life skills, as you can always pay people to make things go away. Until you cause a problem that money won’t solve, like say making your girlfriend and parents despise you.

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#79

I have a friend in IT also earning a fair whack and he too is going that way

#80

Was massively encouraged by his workplace too, encouraging everyone to work anti-social hours and have no work-life balance, and just order a takeaway/cab/laundry service whatever.

#81

This was in Brighton where the water is full of chalk and limescale, so nothing but a good bit of elbow grease and descaler is going to shift it. Daily squeegeeing will not shift it. This guy wasn’t from the area though, and never seemed to get it.

#82

I think earning so much money straight out of uni is really bad for you as a person, as it can lead to you bypassing learning a lot of life skills.

#83

yeah and as you said just throwing money at problems

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