Sharing gaf with women -- renting

LegacyUser

Hi All,

Just wondering ur experiences on the above as a male would you contemplate moving into a very nice gaf only possible drawback living with 3 women. Would it be crazy to do this or what are your thoughts on the issue anyone have any experience on this ?

Dooom

hmm....just out of pure offhand curiosity, you wouldnt happen to be moving into a place in galway would you?

Sarky

Will you be the only guy there? Hmm.

Do you know these girls? Can any of them clean/wash the dishes? The last thing you want is to move into a house of slobs who'll guilt you into doing all the work...

That said, it can make for interesting conversation, and they might let slip a few extremely handy bits of feminine wisdom...

dod

I share a house with two girls, purely an economic arrangement. Do not do it! You have been warned. Unwashed dishes piled up in the sink for days at a time, crap left lying around the place, tonnes of attitude, only one good looking girlfriend between them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not fastidious about these things, but you clean up after them a few times as a gentle prod, but what happens? The norm becomes to leave everything lying around, yer man will clean it up.

OK realistically thats a bit unfair. There's slovenly guys you could move in with as well, really I think it depends on the people involved rather on than on their sex. Ideally (and usually theoretically rather than practically) I think a mix of M&F makes for the best cohabiting arrangements, on the other hand, under certain circumstances I think it can also make for the worst of arrangements

Victor

Beware the toilet roll. Women can use 10-12 times more than a man. One solution is to have a strict "buy your own" régime.

Remember to put the toilet seat down when you are finished. Aalternatively provide gloves so they don't have to touch the seat when they put it down or craft a label for under the seat that "you can have the seat down or you can have it dry".

Beware of petty cash household "expenses".

Beware of leaving anything, anywhere. Especially biological samples.

Whats theirs is theirs, whats yours is theirs.

Expect delays in the bathroom.

Expect manipulation, especially emotional kinds.

Change the lock on your bedroom door.

You are unlikely to get sex out of any of them, so don't bother trying.

Work out the rules for bringing people back to the house.

Be prepared to disappear for several evening in a row if they are in a mood.

LegacyUser

No not galway Spike the greater dublin area.

I think after reading the comments i shall give it a thumbs down !

Michael Collins

Originally posted by HappyGoLucky
I think after reading the comments i shall give it a thumbs down !

Ack, you're being manipulated already. Be your own man!

doctor evil

Talk to the girls and agree on protocal and if they leave dirty dishes or crap around MAKE them clear it up because that is just manky

simu

You should just go talk to them, maybe go for coffee/a drink and see if they seem like ppl you'd get on with or not. I've heard of "flatmates from hell" of both genders!

Beëlzebooze

You are unlikely to get sex out of any of them, so don't bother trying.

but you think you will....thus you will bend over backwards to please them, and they will take advantage of your readiness to please.

been there done that.

one saturday evening you will be lying in your bed, tanked up to the gills, feeling all vunrable and the like, listening to three different kind of moans, as they get their brains shagged out by *NOT YOU*

word of warning, don't do it!

Sleipnir

In my experience women are far more untidy then men around a house (unless they own it) I lived with a few people for a year and one girl never cleaned anything.
She used to do the washing up occassionally. Her Idea of washing up was filling the sink, putting the plates etc in and pouring in some Milton. Leave to steep then remove them to the driaining board for a few hours and put them back in the cupboard.
All the food was still stuck to the plates!! She didn't actually wash them ever!
THREE WOMEN, NO FUGGING WAY!!!!

The Sweeper

Judging what people's household habits are likely to be based on gender is at best, pure speculation and at worst utter bullshít.

Have you not viewed the property? Does it look manky? Does it look as though they're all cleaning freaks? Do you know them? Are they sound people? Do you reckon that, if you had a problem with something, you could tell them?

Look, to be perfectly honest, house shares can be a royal pain in the ass all of the time no matter who you live with. The best thing you can do is move in with easy going people who have some standard of cleanliness, who are approachable about problems and who will respect your privacy.

It's difficult to find that in either gender, but never refuse a potential property just because it's "all gurls" or "all boys".

Trojan

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels

It's difficult to find that in either gender, but never refuse a potential property just because it's "all gurls" or "all boys".

Soz Majd, the rest of your post made sense, but I don't agree with your advice here. In theory it might work, but from my college experience, in practice it's a whole different story.

My recommendation: don't do it.

Al.

TwoShedsJackson

Don't forget that the periods of women living together synchronise after a while, so at least one week a month will be extra-special sheer hell.

Havelock

A) That synchronisation thingy is a myth. I have 2 sisters and a mother and loads of female friends.

See what sort of people they are, go for a coffee and then for a drink. Compair how they act sober and drunk. Do not attempt to chat them up (at first).

C) Not all women are messy, niether are all men.

Sleepy

One of the girls in my house just moved out and was replaced with a guy but before then, it was me and 3 girls. To be honest there was only 4 downsides to living with a gang of girls: Emmerdale, Corronation Street, Eastenders and Fair City. We all keep the place tidy, everyone gets their share of the household **** etc.

It's the same as moving in with anyone: see how you get on with them, make your judgement based on that.

The Sweeper

Originally posted by Trojan
Soz Majd, the rest of your post made sense, but I don't agree with your advice here. In theory it might work, but from my college experience, in practice it's a whole different story.

My recommendation: don't do it.

Al.

Yeah Al I hear you, but then again I've never, ever had a good house share. I've shared with meticulous blokes and filthy blokes, clean girls and scruffy girls. I've shared with antisocial depressed people with eating disorders and with rampant socialisers who fill the house with random punters on a daily basis.

All boys together and, depending on age, you can have the problem of them getting 'blokish' so you've got porn pics on the fridge door and a loo that smells like piss all of the time.

All girls together and, again depending on age, you can have an effort to be 'mammy' where they try to get you to contribute to a house budget for shopping, draw up a cleaning rota and make one person cook every evening.

Mixed household, they can all secretly fall in love with each other, drink too much one night, pretend they're in the big brother house and sleep in each other's beds, fight like married couples and use the thing of shouting "MEN!" or "WOMEN!" when things aren't going well.

Rent a bedsit. I was happiest for six months in a studio flat on the Ranelagh Road.

LFCFan

Don't do it man. I lived with 3 girls in college. They were 3 good looking, sound girls but by the end of the year I was ready to commit murder. Not being sexist or anything but when you have 3 girls and they all have their 'time of the month' at different times you end up living in hell if you get in their way or piss them off in any way shape or form. And like a lot of people have said, they are masters of the guilt trip. No matter how much cleaning etc you do, it's never enough and you are always the slob. If you want to remain sane, DO NOT live in a situtation where there are more women then men.

Then again, you could get lucky and find out they have a lot of lesbian orgies in the house

Wook

The thing that ****s me up the most is the constant blah blah about soaps.. and watching it... it gets me sad and aggresive.

btw , i live with two irish guys and one is a slob and the other isn't, but from what i understand is that loads of Irish think theyre clean and house trained but still a bit different then the continental brothers and sisters

Typedef

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
Rent a bedsit. I was happiest for six months in a studio flat on the Ranelagh Road.

Bloody right, at the end of the day, when you live on your own, it's only your own dirt you have to put up with... so your living space is as clean or as dirty as you make it.

Great if you happen to be pretty intolerant of picking up after or countenacing other people's dirt, really crap, if you're used to having somebody else do all the housework.

Myself, the first (and second last) houseshare I did, was with the chick from Mayo (amongst others)... who used to say things like
"Well like if you can't deal with the (congealed grease that was dripping from the side of the cooker since day 1), why don't you like clean it yourself", but, alas for her... I really wasn't prepaired to clean collettes cooker (in more way then one).
Oh, and one day, Collette got drunk... and used the toilet... overflowed it... and left a wee present on the bathroom floor, for her housemates.

I believe the house got demolished soon after I left.... I'm praying Collette was in it at the time.

logic1

Originally posted by Victor
Beware the toilet roll. Women can use 10-12 times more than a man. One solution is to have a strict "buy your own" régime.

Remember to put the toilet seat down when you are finished. Aalternatively provide gloves so they don't have to touch the seat when they put it down or craft a label for under the seat that "you can have the seat down or you can have it dry".

Beware of petty cash household "expenses".

Beware of leaving anything, anywhere. Especially biological samples.

Whats theirs is theirs, whats yours is theirs.

Expect delays in the bathroom.

Expect manipulation, especially emotional kinds.

Change the lock on your bedroom door.

You are unlikely to get sex out of any of them, so don't bother trying.

Work out the rules for bringing people back to the house.

Be prepared to disappear for several evening in a row if they are in a mood.

I don't think he intends moving in with your mother.

.logic.

dod

Originally posted by logic1
I don't think he intends moving in with your mother.

.logic.

Heheh

echomadman

one saturday evening you will be lying in your bed, tanked up to the gills, feeling all vunrable and the like, listening to three different kind of moans, as they get their brains shagged out by *NOT YOU*

I can hear the pain in your soul as you typed that beélzebooze

Miguel_Sanchez

Originally posted by Havelock
A) That synchronisation thingy is a myth. I have 2 sisters and a mother and loads of female friends.

I'm sure it doesn't happen all the time but I have seen it happen with my girlfriend and her female housemates in college. Poor lad who shared that house had an awful time every month. Ha ha.

Last year I was sharing a house with 3 other lads and 1 girl and when the girl left the place was a lot tidier. Although having said that I know some girls who are meticulous about tiding up after themselves. It really is a lottery you know.

Also - don't get involved with girls you live with on a casual basis - that's just a recipe for disaster.

Doodee

I live with 2 queens, so its kinda similar


but err...depends really. If you know them then grand, you could give it a try, but not all women are the same.

if you think women are hard, try living with Azezil

Victor

Originally posted by Doodee
if you think women are hard, try living with Azezil

Using the words "hard" and "Azezil" in the same sentence just seems sooooo wrong.

Gordon

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