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grrliz
2007-09-01 10:27 pm UTC (link)

Everyone in my family shares a room! [Or did, until people moved out because they started university.] Six people in a three bedroom house necessitates this. I wonder what

teresina would think if she knew we only had — shock! — one bathroom for all those people too.

I like to think sharing a room for twenty-odd years has made me a more well-rounded person with a pretty good handle on the concepts of sharing, personal boundaries, and just plain old sucking it up, but what do I know.

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loquaciousquark
2007-09-02 09:23 pm UTC (link)

Dude, total word on the personal boundaries bit. My first two roommates at college were both only children, so the first six weeks involved a lot of conversations like, "No, you can't have those PopTarts; I bought them for me. No--I know you want them, but you'll have to buy your own! Hey--HEY! Drop it! Drooop iiiit! You have exactly three seconds--thank you very much, good girl. We'll get some for you the next time we're out."

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	edelweiss 2007-09-03 05:21 am UTC (link)
	that's weird. i was an only child but i'm way more about ~~selfishly not sharing~~ keeping track of my own poptarts than taking the poptarts of others. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	_ladyshalott_ 2007-09-03 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	::cough:: I was actually the one who ate my roomie's food, and I had three sibs, one of whom I shared a room with. We ate each other's food all the time. We squabbled a lot over who ate whose slice of cake, but it was never that big a deal to us. No grudges were held or anything. My roommate was pissed the first time I ate all her food though. whoops... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dreamoflife02 2007-09-07 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	I think that depends on personality more than anything else... both of my roommates are only children and I've never shared a room before, and we're all very good at boundary-respecting. (Reply to this)(Parent)

fuzzytowers
2007-09-03 02:48 am UTC (link)

Definitely - My mom grew up in a small house with loads of sibs too. With a couple of bedrooms (and an attic), and one bathroom.

The bathroom came after years of sharing the outhouse. An outhouse - can you imagine how she'd react to that? My GOD! How did people survive before the middle of the last century?

Because, you know, everyone must grow up in a suburban four bedroom house, with two parents, two children, two bathrooms, and an income that will support carefully planned playdates, formal lessons for everything, protective gear, and plenty of sunscreen for everyone.

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	metallicar67 2007-09-05 07:15 am UTC (link)
	And see, I've always wondered if I don't share personal space well for this reason, and wondered if sharing would have been good for me. This whole thread is sending me into flashbacks of my dad doing his "when I was a kid, all four of us kids had to share a bed!" Or maybe it was two kids to a bed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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