Brian says he and Matt buy the toilet paper and the cleaning supplies for the basement, and everyone else takes care of themselves.

“I bring lots of Chipotle napkins home when I eat there, so there’s napkins most of the time,” Brian says. “We all just buy tissues and paper towels as we need them.”

Emily said she is the person in the house who “tidies” everything. She dislikes stuff scattered all over the house and tries to put everything back in its own place — and if that fails, she at least makes piles out of the clutter.

Everyone hand washes his or her own dishes because there is no dishwasher in the house. Megan says dishes sometimes pile up for a couple days, but everyone tries to do his or her part in cleaning dirty dishes.

They try to wash their own dishes, but sometimes they have to remind people to clean their mess, Rachel says.

“It never gets too bad because if they pile up, we just wash them,” Rachel says. “If the sink is full, we just do it because we’ve all washed each other’s dishes before.”

Brian says he usually keeps a day’s worth of dishes downstairs in his room. He brings up his dirty dishes at the end of the day and cleans everything at the same time.

Jen says Emily has the biggest problem leaving her dishes all over the house.

“The cups are the main thing because she doesn’t take them to the kitchen,” she says jokingly. “The rest of the dishes make it to the kitchen but not to the soap.”

Emily says people leave dishes when they are too busy to wash them.

“Whoever left them probably didn’t have time to do it,” she says. “But for the most part, I try to leave mine in my room, so I’m the only person who has to deal with them.”

the gas bill is due
Although most people in the house have their names on a bill for one of the utilities, Brian is the person in charge of collecting everyone’s money and paying the bills.

“It makes sense that the busiest person of all takes care of everything,” Brian says jokingly.
He is not very strict about people paying him, and he will be fine as long as he gets the money by the time everyone moves out, he says. His roommates give him money on time and usually pay a large lump sum in advance so they are caught up for a month or so, he says.

Last year there was a checking account opened for the house utilities, and everyone would deposit money to it every month and keep track of the amount they owed. He says this system worked well until their old roommate, Lisa, wrote a check for the amount that was in the account instead of the amount of the utility and overdrew the account.

“I think it is a little smoother now,” he says. “I use my personal checking account, and people give me extra money, and I pay the bills.

ksu v. mtv
Although the real world is very different than the Real World, the group sees some similarities between the two.

The women gossip and argue about getting different versions of the same story from people, Megan says.

“It’s hard not to gossip because it’s the nature of girls and architecture,” she says. “But Rachel is like the mom of the house and always keeps everything under control.”