Monthly Archives: December 2008

Points to Think About When Choosing Your Housemate

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Living with someone can test the strongest of friendships, so what chance do you have of finding a stranger that you will get on with to live with you?  Well it can be tricky and dependant on whether you are looking for someone to just rent a room and contribute towards the rent or someone that you can get on with and socialise with too.

Many of us feel awkward about seeking for a specific type of person in fear of not being politically correct or offending someone, but by human nature there are people that we know we will get on with and others that you won’t, so just think of it as setting the rules from the outset and if you are not offensive in your advert, no one will take offence.

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You’re a House Sharing Student If…

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Some common tell tale signs that you are house sharing student if…

  • you average to get only four hours sleep a night.
  • your rubbish bin is overflowing but your bank account isn’t.
  • you are personally keeping the local pizza / fast food take away in business.
  • you wake up ten minutes before class.
  • you wear the same jeans 13 days in a row (without washing them!).
  • your breakfast consists of a can or bottle of coke on the way to class.
  • it takes a shovel to find your bedroom floor.
  • you’ll happily pick 10p off of the floor if you find it.
  • get more sleep in lectures and seminars than in your bed.
  • you can sleep through your housemates blaring stereo.
  • you live in a room that is smaller than most caravans.
  • you have a fine collection of Tesco, Asda or Morrison’s own brand beer.
  • said beer cans make up a wall in your window sill.
  • have you seen two consecutive sunrises without sleeping.
  • you do your laundry only when you’ve run out of underwear.
  • doing your hair consists of putting on a baseball cap.
  • Rustler’s form part of a stable diet.
  • you eat at the university’s cafeteria, even if the food is awful, but only because it’s cheap.

Hilarious Ways to Annoy Your Roommates

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  1. Refer to your roommate using terms of endearment such as sweet cheeks and honey buns.
  2. Pretend to take whilst pretending to be asleep on the sofa.
  3. Ask your roommate if your family could move in for a couple of weeks and pretend its true for a few days.
  4. Impersonate a film character for the day, for example Forest Gump.
  5. When the phone rings, get up and answer the door.
  6. When someone knocks on the door, get up and answer the phone.
  7. Tell your roommate that someone called for them whilst they were out but say you can’t remember who or what they wanted.
  8. Every time that you wake up, start screaming “Where am I?” and run around your room for a few minutes, then return to bed.
  9. Buy a Jack in the Box and every day turn the handle until the clown pops out, when it does; scream around continuously for ten minutes.
  10. Smile… all the time.
  11. Make a sandwich, but instead of eating it, leave it on the kitchen floor.  When your roommate throws it in the bin, ask them where it is and complain loudly that’s how you liked your sandwiches and how hungry you are.
  12. Scatter stuffed toys  around the room with party hats on and play loud music.  When the roommate walks in, turn off the music, take off the party hats and starting putting the toys away saying it was fun while it lasted.
  13. Every time you take a shower, scream “I’m Melting! I’m Melting!”
  14. Take the mechanism out of a musical greetings card and place it underneath a rug or carpet, so whenever your roommate walks on it, it activates the sound.
  15. Use a small piece of black tape to block the SKY remote sensor so when your roommate wants to watch TV, they can’t change the channel.

Best Pranks to Play on your Housemate (2008)

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Playing pranks on housemates can be fun, so we thought that we would put together some of the funnier house share prank clips we saw in 2008, maybe you could use them as ideas but be careful if you do as we can’t be held responsible if anything goes wrong!

Feel free to let us know about your best flatshare pranks also…

Enjoy…

Putting Talc in your Flatmates Hair Dryer

Butter the Floor

Newspaper Room Prank

1,000 Balloons

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These are just a couple of our favourite housemate pranks from last year.  Let us know what you think or if you have any other great (and funny) ideas!