Living With Roommates

Christmas and Roommates

December 24, 2011
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Obviously celebrating Christmas with your roommates depends on how well you get along with them.  I don’t know how other “live-in landlords” celebrate during the holiday times with their roommates, but my current roommates are great! With that in mind, we’ve collectively decided to get a Christmas tree and do a gift exchange. We’ve a [...]

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It’s Official – It’s Christmas Time

December 12, 2011

I wasn’t planning to get a tree this year, but one of my roommates suggested getting a tree and the other agreed.

So guess what! …

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Halloween

November 2, 2011
Halloween

Greetings! Halloween was a few days ago.  I did have a number of school-aged children dressed up in their favorite character or monster to greet me with “trick-o-treat” at my door step. There were a good number of these trick-o-treaters, to deplete my supply of treats(reese’s peanut butter cups)  that I had to run to [...]

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How Roommates Save Money You Money Other Than Splitting Utilities

September 24, 2011
1967 GT500 Mustang: 1/24 scale Johnny Lightning Diecast

  We all know that having roommates saves money because of the fact you can split the cost of cable and utilities amongst the number of roommates, thus effectively reducing your cost in half or by thirds depending on the number of roommates you have.   I’ve also mentioned the intangible benefits of having roommates.  Normally, [...]

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Blunders Around the House Caused By Roommates

July 25, 2011
Head in Hands

Around the house, we all make mistakes, accidents or what ever you want to call them.  I make them, you make them, it just happens – we’re all human.  Sometimes, these mistakes cause damage, other times there just simply stuff that we can just clean up and move on.   What happens if your roommate [...]

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Out of the Ordinary Roommates

May 31, 2011
The show is over

Over the weekend, I found my 10th different roommate to move in.  As expected, every roommate has been different and this new guy is no exception – he’s the oldest roommate that I had to date at the age of 42.  Ever since I started this venture, I’ve never once discriminated against a roommate based [...]

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The Long Distance Showing

May 14, 2011
Call Anywhere In The USA

Last week, I received an e-mail from a roommate who’s extremely interested in moving.  He stated that his job requires him to be away for three weeks during a month, which is the best roommate – paying rent and living somewhere else.  The only downside  is that the potential roommate wants to move in at [...]

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Developments While I was Away..

April 9, 2011

Greetings from Kathmandu! I’m on the tail of my trip and fly back tonight.  While I was on my trip, my newest roommate is moving out this weekend.  I guess that what I should of expected with a temporary worker.  He was trying to land a permanent position and better paying job ever since he [...]

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The Wear and Tear

March 17, 2011
Worn out leg

The other day, I was struggling to adjust the clock on the oven for daylight savings time because the oven is old and a POS.  It was then I realized, I should replace the oven, but it would be a foolish investment because it would get used and abused a lot from my roommates and [...]

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Embarrassment

March 3, 2011
Alfonso Soriano Can Hardly Watch

Last week at work, I made several careless mistakes while updating electrical schematics and cabling diagrams.  Now understand, as a Senior Engineer, these careless mistakes should never happen. They should be realized by my own review rather than having a peer reviewer or worse yet, having the customer discover these mistakes.  However, we are human; [...]

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