UGH! I live with my little sister. I have an almost 3 year old and I am a single mom so since we both can't really afford to live on our own, we agreed to live together. We have a 2 bedroom apt. At first I shared a room with my daughter and my sister had her own room. She argued with me that she should have the biggest room (no idea why she thought an adult and a toddler should share a small room while she should have a huge room) and that was always a huge arguement every once in awhile. Right now my bed is in the livingroom because I wake up my daughter in the morning if I get up before she does.
Now the issue I am super annoyed about right now is an issue that is always brought up and we end up getting pissed at each other and argueing constantly.
My sister is a slob. She will stockpile dishes in he room and bring them out once a week or less. She just brought out cups of milk yesterday that was in her room for who knows how long. I have kept this apartment clean ALL WEEK. All by myself. All I asked was that she take out the friggen garbage. I never once complained about her not doing her share. When ever there was dishes in the sink, even if it wasn't mine, I would unload and load the dishwasher and make sure everything got washed. I swept the floors every day, sometimes twice. I washed all the floors. I made sure the bathroom was perfectly clean. The garbage started to pile up. I asked her a few times and she said she would do it before she went to bed. In the morning there would be a pile of dishes in the kitchen and still the garbage was there. I didn't say anything.
Now today there is about 6 bags of garbage in our hallway (right outside our bedrooms ) that has been there for 2 days because she moved them out of the kitchen where they were for a few days before that because she had people come over and she didn't want them to see it. So it has been sitting around for almost a week...because she won't take it out!
I have worked every single day this week between 2 jobs. She is not working. (She is on a leave of absence due to stress) Oh, and the kicker? When she stopped working, she said if I paid most of the rent (I pay 500, she pays 245) then she would (and this is exactly what she said) sweep and mop the floors every day. Do the laundry every day. Clean the bathroom every day. She did it for one week and it was back to me doing it all the time. If she does half the work (like roommates should split the housework) she says shes been doing all the cleaning. I am just so damn tired of living like this. She says she is moving out in June but she has said that a few times already and she can never afford to. I am sooo tempted to tell her I am not paying most of the rent anymore...considering I do all the housework.
Another thing I would like an input on is this: considering what I am a single mom with a toddler, and she is just one person, should rent be split half and half or should I pay more because I have a toddler? How do you think the rent should be split? She says that because she is always in her room that she shouldn't have to clean all the other rooms. I told her that if she rents an apartment from someone, she can't only pay part of the rent because she only uses one room, it doesn't work like that.
The reason I want an opinion on it so that I am not being completely irrational when I talk to her tonight. I want to calm down and think about it.
She makes more money than I do, and I make it while being a single mom with no help from her dad. My sister is a pothead whos first priority is her habit. She complains she can't afford to pay so much rent but how does that make sense when I do it making less than she does WITH a toddler?!
So freaking mad right now!