Life in the Brothers/Sisters houses

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Did anyone have a better experience than me, where living costs and chores were truly shared? I had a lot of anger to work out for years over the irresponsibility I saw.

I have been in both situations. When I first migrated to Columbus, we had 9 brothers living with the elder and his family. I did the math and figured out that we should have had a little more food than we did. Also, since I was the guy who could fix anything, I did a lot of extras to help the house. Later on I found out that many of the brothers contributed next to nothing. Fortunately, the elder did his best to keep things running smoothly. At first.

Unfortunately, he thought that helping wayward indigents was part of the program. He brought this one guy in to share a small room with two others. This guy had gained celebrity status among us for rescuing scores of young people from the Moonies cult (or so he said, how ironic is that!) In all my life I have never met a guy with stinkier feet. I am not exaggerating here -- I would nearly pass out just walking by that room. The other two brothers in the bedroom quickly moved out, and the house was stuck with the stench. I talked to the elder once about doing something on behalf of the rest of the brothers. He balked and told me to talk to him, which never happened. I moved out too.