(Excuse the rant below)


Don't leave your stuff all over the place

Don't wait until the garbage is so full you have to put stuff next to it... Remove it, clean the bin and put a new bag.

Don't only wait until the other person is already midway through cooking to ask if they want help, take initiative and also cook, buy ingredients, start working before everybody is already hungry.

Don't just wash your plates and think the job is done. What about putting the leftovers in a tupperwear and into the fridge? What about cleaning the pots and pans from food you also ate? What about drying and putting away the dried plates? what about removing the rests of food from the sink?

Don't wait until someone tells you to help with cleaning the house, be proactive.

Don't just sit there in the computer while the other person is doing things for the house, join in!

Don't forget to say thank you.

Don't be more of a strain to the other people than you are a help.

Don't be that guest / housemate.



/rant

yeah ive got some dishes to do. Luckily i live by myself

Oof, sounds like a messy living situation. I have my own separate apartment, but the kitchen in the house I live in is shared, so I can sympathize with you on a lot of these points. Nothing like seeing and smelling two-day old chunks of egg stuck to a frying pan sitting in the sink when you go downstairs to wash a few plates.

Don't wait to formulate your discontent until it explodes in form of a rant.

<rant>I am utterly astounded by how little attention pretty much everyone I have ever lived with pays to their environment and their effect on others around them. Currently it seems that I am doing >90% of the housework in a 6-person house. Luckily I don’t have the dirtiest housemates, just the only thing anyone does is hoover their own rooms or wash their own dishes. I was a cleaner for many years so housekeeping comes naturally to me, but I am starting to get a little burnt out being the only person who does anything.</rant>

I think a nice approach to take to life in general is to leave your environment in a better state than you found it, if we all lived by this concept the world would be wonderful.

Im sorry end, i'll try to be more proactive. I'll pick more of my stuff up next time, promise.

^^^ Jk. Yeah man, that's why I would never live with anyone; well partly. I've seen this same scenario countless times with friends, their roommates, etc. Many are lazy man, that's just the fact of the matter haha. Im OCD, I keep the house clean, clearly taking after my mother. Dishes sitting in a sink don't fly, even just a few. Yard work to do always. And being proactive like that not only lends itself to cleanliness and whatnot, but carries over into your life, benefiting in alot of indirect ways.

I think most of it is down to people not being very observant.

Good point, that's true.

Discipline and mindfulness are good motivators. I agree about being observant as well. Really it just comes through simplicity. Nothing is difficult unless it is perceived as difficult. Anything can be done, now. There must be balance and responsibility.

Aw, Endlessness...

That rant could have easily been me talking to our youngest daughter who is 17...

Don't smell things that shouldn't be smelled by anyone other than the wearer, and if you really have to smell them, don't get caught!

@endlessness, It's just my silly observation but your rant draws some fleeting parallels to the nexus forum of late. Of which I am certainly guilty of some, and for that I am sorry. My rent will also be in your account by Friday

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