If
you know me at all you know that I love a theme or a reason to celebrate. I am
not sure if anyone knows this as well as the roommates I’ve had over the years.
From celebrating my very first roommate, Nell, picking a major with cookie cake
and sparkling cider, to hosting a Do-Over de Mayo just because my roommate and
I weren’t both in town for Cinco de Mayo this year, they have been around for
it all. Conveniently enough, O-Cedar®, the leader in innovative
floor care, has declared today National Roommate Appreciation Day. In true
Dorothy fashion, I cannot help but celebrate not only with my roommates but
also with y’all.
Having attended summer
camps as a child, roommates (or cabin mates at that point) were always an
exciting concept. Fortunately, that mentality did not change as I went into my
freshman year of college at Furman. I have been so lucky to have roommates that
have also been some of my best friends. Some of those relationships began strictly
as roommates and some started as friendships that were strengthened by opting
to live together. However, I know that not everyone gets quite as lucky. In
honor of the declaration of June 6th as National Roommate
Appreciation Day, O-Cedar® is celebrating
roommates all month long with the launch of the Ultimate Roommate AppreciationSweepstakes and their easy to use Roommate Agreement.
When determining a
roommate before freshman year of college, Furman had all incoming students fill
out a survey based on their interests, room preferences, and personalities.
Each year of college, you were expected to sit down with your roommates to
complete a Roommate Contact or Agreement to establish your living expectations
before any problems arose. While some people didn’t take these as seriously, I
think that filling out the Roommate Agreement each year helped my roommates and
I to better understand one another’s preferences and avoid issues. I found over
the years that many disagreements between roommates generally occur because of
different expectations when it comes to living together and keeping up with
responsibilities in your living space. Now that I live off campus in an
apartment without RA’s encouraging my roommates and I to fill out an agreement
it can be a bit trickier to understand their preferences without this kind of
agreement. With jobs and lives outside of school and our apartment, cleaning
and dealing with general maintenance of our apartment is often the last thing
we want to deal with when we get home. For this reason, my roommate Ellison and
I decided to sit down and complete the O-Cedar® “Makes Your Life Easier” Roommate Agreement. Since we have
already lived so well together, we knew that completing this will only continue
to make our lives easier. Fortunately, the roommate agreement is easy to
download and self-explanatory to fill out and will surely help to put some
house rules in place.
Once we finished our
agreement, we decided that keeping it on the fridge where it is always in view
would help to remind us to do our part. Having cleaning supplies ready to go
when we need them has also helped us to make sure that we can complete our
tasks in a timely manner. Fortunately, I love cleaning (so much so that in
college my friends would occasionally call me Monica Geller) so having some new
tools certainly encourages me to do my part. O-Cedar®’s ProMist Max Spray Mop has made tasks like
cleaning our bathrooms, kitchen, and entryway floors quick and painless. It has
a dual-sided mop head that flips over, making it super easy to clean a lot of
floor space quickly, and is machine-washable– super eco-friendly! I know not everyone
loves cleaning quite as much as I do I have found that cleaning with your
roommate can make it a lot more fun and serve as a great bonding experience. Before
dreading the idea of cleaning check your completed Roommate Agreement and put
on a fun playlist (our favorites are this Cleaning Oldies Playlist and the
Hairbrush Microphone Days Playlist) to make things more fun before getting to
work. You will be surprised by how much you can accomplish in a short period of
time and the fun you didn’t know you could have while cleaning.
If you’re not
motivated enough yet to get started cleaning your space, then O-Cedar®’s Ultimate Roommate Appreciation Sweepstakes should do the trick.
This $5,000 prize includes $2,000 to help cover expenses like rent or housing
expenses, a $1,500 Amazon gift card, $500 gift cards for meal delivery,
laundry/dry cleaning and video streaming services, and an O-Cedar® product bundle to help keep your home
sparkling clean all year long. Just for entering the Sweepstakes, O-Cedar® will give you a $5 coupon for the ProMist® MAX Spray mop – the perfect tool for you
and your roommates to get to work cleaning as determined in your Roommate
Agreement. You can enter the sweepstakes all month long and can download your
own Roommate Agreement at www.promistmax.com/roommate!
If you’re looking for
other ways to be a great roommate I’ve included some of my previous posts on
the topic for you below!
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