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You also then have to be prepared for them to start getting nit picky with you over your usage of things. Do you want them to time your showers to figure out percentages of the water bill? Might there be some time that you are using more than them?
Figuring out this kind of stuff is good practice for compromise and learning to negotiate with people though. Consider it a lesson learned!
The first year I lived with two of my sorority sisters, one of them proposed that we try to eat dinners together. We would take turns grocery shopping and just pay the bill for when we shopped. It worked out great for myself and my sister-daughter, because we had the same types of eating habits. However, the roommate who proposed this ate nothing but yogurt and rice, so when she did the shopping, that's all that was in the house. We had to rearrange that agreement for the future.
Consider it good practice for when your spouse leaves the natural gas grill on for 3 weeks and you get a huge bill... (yeah, that happened to us. He left it on after cooking one night in October and in November, when it was snowing, I noticed steam rising from the lid as the snow flakes fell on it and reamed him out!)
Dee
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