‘My patience is wearing thin’: Roommate considers locking other roommate out of shared thermostat after a long-standing feud regarding apartment temperature during the winter

Sharing a small space with someone might seem like a great idea at first—you get to save money on a one-bedroom (because for some reason, they're more expensive,) and split the cost of utilities such as gas, water, and electricity. The issue with splitting bills down the middle is that someone might use 70 percent of the water that month while another might use only 30 percent. That's not fair, and some individuals try to take advantage of the 50-50 split agreement and use said agreement to defend their selfish decisions and actions.

In this next story, a person living with a roommate shares their ongoing thermostat battle with their roommate. This roommate has been turning the thermostat down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter because she prefers the house to be cold, but the person writing the story argues that a house should be warm in the winter. They even offered to pay 60 percent of the utility bill to make up for heating costs, but their roommate continues to avoid them when they try to have a productive conversation about it. If the roommate has a problem with the temperature, she can open her window. Agree? Scroll to read the whole story.

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"WIBTA if I Locked my Roommate out of the Apartment Thermostat?"

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68 degrees is a normal temperature to keep one's household at, especially when the weather starts getting a bit colder. When living with roommates, one has to consider not only what they want, but also what their roommate(s) want(s) as well. An easy fix for the person's roommate is to leave her window cracked to ventilate her room with some cold air. Instead of doing this, though, she continues to micromanage the thermostat and leave the house teetering the line of 50 degrees.
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