would it benefit a person to go half on groceries with a roommate?
 

i think this girl eats stuff that i eat kinda.......she drinks diet drinks so i dont know if it would benefit me cash wise to go in half and half or just buy all my own shit

i've done both, but each time the other roommate was poor and liked cold pasta like foods and weird combinations like spam and maccaroni so we ended up just getting our own shit and shoppig alone

Be quiet.

i haven't said a thing

Oops. :blush:

oh no! dont do that! theres nothing that pisses me off more (okay, well there are a lot of things)... but people drinking MY fucking soda is not cool! when the house runs out of salami, it's you thats gonna be going to the grocery store. i guarantee it!

hey kristin go fuck yourself

It works if you have similar eating habits and appetites. It doesn't work if you guys eat different things.

Try it for a month and see how it works. There's nothing more ridiculous then not having enough room in your fridge because there are two different milks, margarines, cartons of eggs, etc etc.

Yeah, it will benefit a person to go half on groceries, assuming they consume more than half.

I'd say it'd be a good idea to split the 'generic' items that a fridge must have: eggs, milk, condiments (assuming you guys like the same types), butter, etc. because, as LSD said, it is silly to have two of everything. Maybe even split things like chicken or cereal, if you like the same kind. But buy your own specific shit. If you like one kind of lunchmeat that she hates, it's stupid to even try to work that out.

If nothing else, try it and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work

i say this because i don't really carry cash around, and if we went shopping i don't really know how easy it would be to "split" the groceries. like would we make three trips? i buy my shit, she buys hers, and we share the paper towels, toilet paper, adn garbage bags?
i just dont want to have it like the other roommates where I was the only one buying coke, and never getting the last one or having enough for me when i buy them and dont' eat anyone elses shit

I had one friend who would keep an enveloppe on top of the fridge, and she would put all of her grocery receipts in it, signed. Her roommate would do the same thing. At the end of the month, they would tally it up and whoever spent less would split the difference.

i second the motion.

I think you boys are expressing some bitterness toward poor kristin because you can't get fucked to save your lives.

nope. i'm married and get plenty. i just hate the slore.

ah i see...you are locked in to tapping a fat, nagging, hideous bitch for the rest of your life. sorry nigger.

you just described trykristin 3 years from now.

you're right that she nags sometimes, but she is smokin' hot. i don't mind that she is the only one i will tap for the rest of my life a single bit

well if you both eat sack i have some you can share

apparently you dont understand how the woman body changes as the years go on. things arent always going to look as good as they do now, and her weight is sure to go up as her metabolism slows.

you are charged with two counts of bullshit

our household shares stuff like condiments & tin foil etc. well all buy our own groceries. incl milk (so we have multiple bottles in the fridge which is annoying). but cus i live with my gf, her and i share groceries. we eat the same shit more or less. except she's pescitarian and i'm not. but i hardly eat meat at home, so it works out fine. we have a joint account that we use to buy groceries, so there's never any discussion about money. we just put the same amount in and spend on the debit card...

our household shares stuff like condiments & tin foil etc. well all buy our own groceries. incl milk (so we have multiple bottles in the fridge which is annoying). but cus i live with my gf, her and i share groceries. we eat the same shit more or less. except she's pescitarian and i'm not. but i hardly eat meat at home, so it works out fine. we have a joint account that we use to buy groceries, so there's never any discussion about money. we just put the same amount in and spend on the debit card...

id advise against it. if you really care enough to tally up costs then things like who eats more or who spends money on more expensive stuff will bother one of you

Kristin, you've been through this before. Eat and buy separate food. If you don't you will fight over it. Stop entertaining ideas you know in the back of your mind won't work.

ehhhh when I lived with two other people... one girl was always on a diet and bought more expensive food, so she had her own cabinet and bought all her own groceries. My other roommate and I (the one I'm living with now) were practically joined at the hip and we always went to the grocery store together and when we were done would just split the groceries up at the register. Some stuff we bought for ourselves, but most things were common ground and whoever could eat them--if it was something that we thought the other person may want we'd ask permission first though. Now that she isn't there that often (maybe an hour a day, and she doesnt sleep there) it isn't really an issue because she doesn't buy many groceries. Also she will go to the store hungry and buy a bunch of shit and never eat it--so if somethign stays in the pantry for a while without being touched I will normally just open it and eat it... but we have been living together for 3 years now so it's more relaxed than a new roommate situation.

my girlfriend got mad at her roommate because she used our ketchup lol.

why the fuck in a food thread do these idiots throw around their claims of how my body will turn out and how my personality really is when none of these fuckers even talk to me on aim.

you don't even know my favorite color and you're talking about how my body will turn out? jesus christ this is ridiculous.

i'm going to buy my own food and get mad if she eats all of anything i buy but not get so anal that she can't have a couple chips.....but if i catch that bitch chowin down on my doritos i'll have words with her

just let her know that if she eats some of your doritos she has to buy the next bag

is that supposed to mean that you met her in real life?

also toby your girlfriend sounds like a bitch !!

The internet is real life now. Welcome to 2006 buddy.

i think i got drunk and threw away the mustard once. i hate mustard, but my parents bought it with a set so the exbitchwhoreskank roommate couldn't get mad. plus she didn't really eat here.