I have a new roommate who works with me so I figured we'd have similar lifestyles but I was wrong. After 2 months it's become obvious that his philosophy is simple: if he does very little and spends very little, he can work very little to afford his expenses.
Observations:
* He genuinely seems to believe that someday he'll find a woman who says "Oh my God! I want to spend the rest of my life in your unfurnished bedroom with the blinds pulled down too!"
* I think he might be a virgin at age 38.
* I get up 3 hours earlier (5am vs 8am), get to work 2.5 hours earlier (6am vs 8:30am), have a healthy dinner made from scratch by the time he gets home, and then he's too lazy to even help clean up the mess. He'll just sit there surrounded by dishes forever until I finally take them.
* Now I'm finding he's too cheap to even replenish the ingredients he consumes or beers he drinks. I get Angry Orchard, Micro brewed beer, and $20-$30 a bottle wine, and he buys generic 2% milk, Ocean Spray High Fructose Corn Syrup Artificially Flavored Sink Water. I buy organic, grass-fed, bone-in beef, he buys radishes and iceberg lettuce. I distill my own water, he drinks tap water.
* Meanwhile, when he got locked out of the apartment at 11:30pm on a weekend, in the middle of summer in a gated community, in an area with at least 5 great bars and restaurants that were open and within a mile, he was checked into the cheapest hotel by 11:45pm and demanded I reimburse him.
* It was an emergency for him not to get to bed by midnight on a Saturday.
* I drove a UHaul 800 miles and carried all my belongings except 2 items to the 3rd floor by myself. He left his stuff at his other apartment because he thought the UHaul was too expensive so he has hardly any furniture. Then he needed to take a 15 minute break between the 2 items I needed help with.
* I've worked every Saturday for 5 hours each of the past 10 weeks, taking home an extra 50 hours pay. He sleeps in on Saturday, never worked once, stays home all day, and doesn't take advantage of a chance to be paid for overtime.
* I bought a $2000 organic queen bed and he bought a $200 single bed with no real mattress or boxed spring. We have the same job.
* When I had an extra $100 ticket to see a concert he decided to stay home.
* Although I'm 7 years older, I've had about 5 dates in 10 weeks here, he's got 0 phone numbers and has never left the apartment except to go to work or the grocery store.
Summary. Ask yourself this: why would a woman want a man who has less income, less energy, lower quality input (diet) and lower quality output (no events, vacations or trips)? Don't be like my roommate. In fact, I'm somewhat concerned that living with a man like this will drag me down. I honestly wouldn't even tolerate a woman being so unproductive. What do I do? Kick his ass? Move out?
