My housemate is a clean freak; how do we find a happy medium? Not Clean Enough, Newcastle Dear Not Clean Enough, When living with others, one’s always prone to disagreements stemming from differing standards: butter or margarine; how clean is clean; whether to buy the environmentally friendly, sandpapery pre-browned toilet paper (ugh!) or the luxurious [...]

One of my roommates (a leisurely male of twenty-five who spends his days plaiting his beard) and his silent-but-cute squeeze (a schoolgirl of seventeen) share a very lustful and passionate sex life. I have awoken to my chandelier swing dancing about my room (their bed takes residence above my head), causing turbulent slumbers of a [...]

I live in a share house with a girl whose long hair is  forever stuck in the drain of the shower. I’m sick of the shower flooding; and when I try to tell her about it, she always avoids the conversation. How should I encourage her to clean up her mess? Follicularly Challenged, Darlinghurst, NSW Dear Follicularly [...]