Who’s doing the dishes in your Winnipeg apartment tonight?
Who's doing the dishes tonight?
Sharing a living space can be difficult. No matter how well you get along with your potential roommates, you need to understand that there will be challenges once you start living together, especially in the dishes department.
Even if you’re lucky enough to have a Winnipeg apartment equipped with a dishwasher, problems are bound to arise. Below are some tips to keep the inevitable dishes war at bay.
Scheduling Works
Creating a dishwashing schedule is a good idea when first moving in together. Take 10 minutes to create some guidelines. Should dishes be done once a day? If your schedules are similar, maybe the person who cooks should be exempt from washing the dishes. Alternating weeks is also an option. Also keep in mind that schedules can be interrupted, so try to stay open to compromise.
Communication Can Prevent…
Talking to each other is important. Even if you think your roommate is the worst dish dumper in the history of apartment living, there are likely some things that you do that make them equally crazy so, think before you explode. Ask yourself: is there a reason my roommate is neglecting to follow our dishwashing agreement? Taking the time to discuss problems with an open mind is guaranteed to bring better results than brooding about them silence.
Making It Easier
Rinsing dishes after you use them is a great way to prevent an ugly, smelly dish pile and it only takes two seconds. Using parchment paper or aluminum foil to line baking dishes is another way to avoid sticky situations.
Dirty dishes are inevitable, but with a little roommate communication and compromise your dishwashing conundrum can be quashed without starting a full-blown war.
Okay. You wash. I’ll dry.
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Winnipeg Apartment Ideas | admin January 9, 2012 | 
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