Four Men, One Bathroom

The house I live in only has two bathrooms. One upstairs and one downstairs. The house is also a duplex. This means my three roommates and I have to share one bathroom. This creates a couple different problems. First, everyone has to use the bathroom in the morning. Second, no one ever wants to help clean the bathroom.

The first couple of weeks after Kaveman and Markie Mark moved in, we noticed that we were all using the bathroom at the same time in the morning. This dilemma created a time issue and plenty of awkward situations. 

I only need the bathroom for a couple minutes in the morning, as to where Kaveman needs it for about 30 minutes to get ready for work. We would get upset at each other for taking too much in the bathroom because someone else needed to use it or they would end up being late to work or class. It'd also create awkward moments because someone would forget to either lock the bathroom door or shut it all the way. It  We started to get tired of everyone walking in on each other every other morning and using the bathroom for too long. We decided to make a morning bathroom schedule.

We figured out each other's schedule and allotted a certain amount of time each of us had to follow, otherwise that person would be forced to do yard work alone. 

The schedule has been working very well for us. The other issue that took a while to resolve was keeping our bathroom clean

Our bathroom, especially our toilet, can become extremely dirty. Myself and B-fresh have been the only two that contribute to keeping the bathroom clean. We buy all the cleaning supplies as well as being the only ones to use them. We have made multiple attempts to get the other two to help us, but they never do. We got tired of being the only two to ever clean the bathroom, so we asked our roommates how they felt about splitting the cost of a maid to come in once a month to clean the bathroom. We all decided that would be the best option. 

Lesson to take away from this: Bringing in outside help is never a bad idea, especially if someone is going to split the cost with you.