Talk to your roommates and make an agreement, that each of you, in round robin order, orders apartment cleaning service, with period equal to X weeks. This will alleviate part of the problem.
I don’t currently have a problem with roommates (we solved it last time with some ad-hoc negotiation) I’m just more generally annoyed that there’s not a good principled approach here that I can pitch as “fair”.
(We do have apartment cleaners who come biweekly, whose cost is split evenly, but that also just doesn’t address all the various small ways mess can add up on the timescale of hours or days. In the original motivating case it was about hairs getting in the sink-drain, which I prefer to solve once a year with a bottle of Draino, and others preferred to solve much-more-frequently with smaller-dollops-of-draino. i.e. I consider it fine if a sink drains slightly slowly, others found it gross)
((Also, there’s a much more general version of this which is what I was more interested in, which isn’t just the case of roommates in particular—it includes small ad-hoc situations such as some friends going camping and having different preferences about how much to cleanup))
Talk to your roommates and make an agreement, that each of you, in round robin order, orders apartment cleaning service, with period equal to X weeks. This will alleviate part of the problem.
I don’t currently have a problem with roommates (we solved it last time with some ad-hoc negotiation) I’m just more generally annoyed that there’s not a good principled approach here that I can pitch as “fair”.
(We do have apartment cleaners who come biweekly, whose cost is split evenly, but that also just doesn’t address all the various small ways mess can add up on the timescale of hours or days. In the original motivating case it was about hairs getting in the sink-drain, which I prefer to solve once a year with a bottle of Draino, and others preferred to solve much-more-frequently with smaller-dollops-of-draino. i.e. I consider it fine if a sink drains slightly slowly, others found it gross)
((Also, there’s a much more general version of this which is what I was more interested in, which isn’t just the case of roommates in particular—it includes small ad-hoc situations such as some friends going camping and having different preferences about how much to cleanup))