• You take turns doing the weekly shop: Every time it’s your turn to do the weekly shopping, you pay for the whole lot. This is based on the principle that weekly shops usually add up to roughly the same amount, and it works itself out in the long run. This also works best when everyone eats the same amount of food.
Ongoing expenses: Services and Food Part (3)
January 20th, 2012
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Ongoing expenses: Services and Food Part (2)
January 16th, 2012
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This way everyone gets to treat the bills as a regular expense, and has to budget for them on a weekly basis. This also means that if one of your housemates does a runner, or leaves without giving you much notice, you aren’t going to be short for the next bill. It is kind of like a pay-as-you-go scheme.
Ongoing expenses: Services and Food
January 12th, 2012
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In almost all cases, your electricity, water, gas and telephone bills are evenly split between everyone who lives in the house. But if one particular person uses a lot more of one particular service, they are obviously expected to pay extra. For example, if one of your flat- mates calls their best friend in Canada every second day, the phone bill is going to skyrocket—and it is that person’s individual responsibility to pay for the extra expense.
Ongoing expenses: Rent
January 8th, 2012
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Earlier on I talked about the major expenses you face when you move out of home into a place of your own, whether you are living by yourself or sharing with others. Obviously, when you live by yourself you have to pay all the household expenses yourself; when you live with other people you split the bills between you. Expenses need to be discussed as soon as you decide to move in together. Usually they are shared equally, but in some cases you need to make exceptions.
Mistake #14: Being Unable to Make a Decision Part (2)
January 4th, 2012
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They were scared to make a commitment and wanted to wait until the weekend, when their parents could go through the home. Unfortunately for them, the weekend walk-through never happened.
