The price of housing causes many people to delay their intention to become independent and to continue living with their parents. When this situation is seen as infinite because rents go up and up and the same does not happen to salaries, that is when the magic solution appears: living with friends. And what better situation than sharing a flat with some of your colleagues? Attention, danger. Before embarking on the adventure, it is better that you review the instructions to live with your friends and not die trying.
The danger of coexistence among friends
Much is said about the risk of cohabitation as a couple and little or nothing about that other coexistence when you go to share a flat with your friends. The danger is the same: destruction of the relationship due to overconfidence and invasion of privacy. And we don’t want to take away the idea that you’re finally leaving your parents’ house, but we want to warn you that living with friends isn’t going to turn your day-to-day life into an episode of Friends.
Becoming independent with friends: solutions to survive living together
- Once you have found the right home or the only one you can access, the next step is not to move, but to set some rules. The rules of coexistence (if they are followed) will prevent this adventure of living semi-independently from becoming a horror episode to forget.
- You have to establish a cleaning schedule that can be rotating or based on what each one dislikes doing the least. The housework schedule is followed to the letter and there are no excuses, no snow storm, no fever, no hangover, nothing at all.
- In the matter of food, it will be better for you to put yourself in independent mode. Each one his own, because most likely you have different schedules. And the number 1 commandment of coexistence among friends is: do not touch each other’s food.
- The roommates do not only live weekly cleaning. What gets dirty, what is used, gets cleaned. Don’t let one of your friends discover with surprise that when he leaves a cup in the sink it doesn’t clean itself or the elves come to wash it.
- There will be common expenses, such as washing machine detergent, for example, toilet paper or cleaning products. Make sure that this list of common products is as small as possible, only the essentials. Always remember that this is a step prior to total independence.
- Theme parties: by living with your friends, you will also share your leisure time with them at home. In your house, which is also his house. And someone may not feel like drinking tequilas on a Tuesday until four in the morning.
- Living with friends is not a vacation. It is about living in the same space (reduced, by the way) the vicissitudes of day to day. This is real life, you have to get up early, you have to work, you have to clean, and you have to go shopping… And, above all, you have to rest.
- You are friends and you adore each other and we want you to continue to adore each other forever. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that everyone needs their alone time, their own space and their privacy.
- But don’t worry, we’ve only shown you the most dangerous side of living with friends. We don’t want to take away the idea because it’s good, of course it’s good. Nothing better than coming home after a horrible day and finding your best friend willing to cheer you up, comfort you and make you forget all the bad things.