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I currently live with 5 other guys and have a unique system that has mostly worked fit us for the two years we've lived together. We develop annually a house budget which includes rent, utilities, Internet, netflix, and a food budget for the month (currently $100/person/month). This covers all meals and each house member is responsible for cooking obe meal a week. We're actually pretty busy so often only half of us are there, but we'll just take leftovers to work the next day. Unfortunately for my roommates (fortunately for me), I've been engaged for almost 3 months (8 to go!) and find I'm not eating at the house enough to keep paying for food there. Until recently though, our shared budget worked really well.

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8/24/10 11:14 AM

My roommates and I (who call our house "The Winchester") are throwing a party tomorrow and chose to use a Facebook invite. However, recognizing the impersonality of the medium, we sent out this email to all the invited:

"Look folks,

"The simple fact of the matter is that laziness is a central pillar of the Winchester Guiding Ethic. This is probably the most stringently-followed Winchester Guideline, evident in our approach to everything from stairwell closet organization to Ramen-centric menus.

"In an ideal world, each and every one of you would have received a carefully calligraphed invitation in the mail, written upon the stretched canvas of a baby seal and lovingly sprinkled with gold dust, espousing the specific wonders that you would bring to our festivities, and each envelope would be sealed with (for the ladies) a kiss in wax from J. or (for the men) a kiss from Q.

"In the more normal world of modern holiday parties, we might have at the least also created an Evite for our more Facebook-illiterate friends and called those of our friends who avoid the interwebs altogether, making sure the invitation was personal and sincere.

"But we do not hold our beliefs lightly, so we have done none of those things. (Though, in honor of another Winchester tradition, we all have agreed we SHOULD.)

"So here's the deal:

"We want you to know that you, specifically you, are the person we most want at our Christmas party. No, not that guy, you. If we cared enough to send one calligraphed baby seal-skin gold-dusted invitation to one person, it would totally be you. Because we haven't seen you in way too long and we would just love to catch up and hear how you and yours have been! And we will be sad when you, yes you, can't make it.

"So just break our hearts, why don't you?

"If you don't believe me, call me up at 555-555-1234 and I will give you a three-point structured argument for why you are the person we most want at our party.

"I dare you. Test me.

"So consider yourself humbly and personally invited to the Second Annual Winchester Christmas Party this Saturday, anytime after 7. (If you come before 7, we'll put you to work, because we have a lot of cookies to bake.)

"Sincerely,
S"

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12/11/09 3:28 PM