When you’re a student or you work weird hours or you have a deadline or have essentially any excuse, it’s very very easy to say “I can do this later.” and later never happens. Read some of Kelsey's top tips for keeping communal spaces clean here!

Continuing with her advice on communal living, Kelsey offers some advice on how to create a good communal environment: My best advice would be to “​Live with people that you want to be like.”​ This is a simple concept that I think more people should adopt.

Communal living often fails because it is treated like a group project. That is, you are thrown together with people you hardly know and expected to work in harmony. Learning conflict resolution and compromising are part of the process and it will ultimately prepare you for ‘the real world’ where you might encounter people that you might not like...