The day you move into your first dorm/condo/apartment/house with roommates can be a very emotion filled day. All of the future plans with them begin to consume your mind, and overall it tends to be pretty exciting. But not always is it easy having roommates, especially more than one. There are some problems that tend to arise.
1. Decorating Shared Rooms
Coming to a mutual agreement on what color curtains to buy, what type of patterned pillows to buy, and whether or not to buy a rug with fur or carpet can cause quite the commotion.
2. Clothes
When having more than one roommate, what is better than having another closet to pick clothes from? More the merrier right? Well, not when clothes suddenly start disappearing and are nowhere to be found.
3. Food
Food is something that is a huge necessity, and can get pretty territorial very quick. It is easy to share the little things like pasta, but others must keep their paws off the Little Debbie's.
4. Utilities
Once you move out of your parent's house and have to start paying your bills, enforcing house rules is a must. Someone is always yelling at someone to turn off the water while brushing their teeth or to turn off the light as you leave the room.
5. Laundry
Compromising on which days of the week everyone will do laundry and forgetting to do it on your day tends to be an occurring event. Then, in the moment when you are in desperate need of a clean pair of underwear, you find yourself butting heads with whoever has clothes in the washer and/or dryer.
6. TV
Not everyone likes the same kind of TV shows. Whether it be horror films, comedies, or action packed movies, finding a happy median is a difficulty. Usually it will result in someone leaving the room or turning off the TV and heading into their room with their laptop for a Netflix filled night.
7. "Quiet Hours"
There is never really a set time in the day when you can have a "peaceful moment". Someone, or even yourself, is always doing something; whether that be cleaning, facetiming, snapchatting, cooking, or watching TV.
8. Different Schedules
Being able to spend quality time with your roommates, whom you love and adore, can be quite challenging when everyone has different class and work schedules. When you actually find a day when everyone has a little time for some bonding, is a day of celebration.
9. Making Plans
Following the different schedules, we all tend to have different sleeping patterns. When the day does come when we can all enjoy each others company and want to go out, the end result is usually us all falling asleep in our beds for the night.
10. Visitors
Everyone pays rent, therefore everyone is given the ability to have whomever over, but the problem tends to be the hours that people have their visitors over. Which in the end, just creates the viscious cycle of "everyone pays rent, therefore everyone is given the ability to have whomever over".
