two men in messy home
Someone will clean up later. Right? (Picture: Getty)

Ah, communal living. It’s the land of passive aggressive fridge notes and group chats, enforced borderline alcoholism and more drama than an episode of Ex On The Beach.

But you wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Or at least, you can’t afford to with rents the rates they are and the impossibly high first rung of that property ladder.

And we’ve all been there. That is, if we’ve managed to move out of the parental home in the first place.

Here are 18 things that happen when you live with other people.

1. Someone will always callously jump in the shower, just as you muster the strength to get up and pee.

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2. You will always want to do laundry on the same day and have genuinely considered sabotaging your housemate’s cycle.


3. Clothes horses will litter every downstairs room, but they will always be a little bit broken.

4. One of your housemates will insist on bulk buying everything and leaving their stock in piles around the house.

5. Despite nobody admitting it’s them, someone always manages to spray toothpaste over the entire bathroom mirror, leaving you to wonder whether they’re actually using a handheld blender.


6. Somebody always manages to flood the bathroom after a shower, turning your small, humble, shared bathroom into a mouldy, sock dampening wet room.

7. There will be an ever-growing collection of toilet roll tubes, along with three opened toilet rolls. None of these have ever seen the toilet roll holder.

8. There will always be insufficient sofa space.

9. There will be a clear hierarchy of who does the most cleaning, but only the person at the top will be aware of this.

10. Almost all your arguments will involve washing up or taking the rubbish out.

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It’s a rubbish job (Picture: Getty)

11. The only time you’ll do a really thorough clean is when someone’s parents are coming to visit, when it turns into a full-on operation.

12. A George Foreman grill will somehow find its way into your kitchen and will probably never experience washing up liquid.


13. There will be one housemate who is incapable of being both drunk and quiet. Even if you don’t hear them, you will discover their trail of destruction the next morning.

14. There will always be one housemate you never see, and one you see far too much of.

Working from home in front of a bright computer with view from above.
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15. You will hear someone else having sex and feel aurally violated.

16. All of your housemates will have a different idea about what items are communal.

17. You will learn to keep everything you truly love in your room.

18. But it’s OK, because one day you’ll be able to afford your own house. Ha. Lol.

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