How do student flats/house shares work?

All housemates have to negotiate advance rotas agreeing schedules for bathroom and kitchen use.
Cleaning duty, putting the rubbish out and having guests come/stay over too.
Sadly a lot of people will be lazy about always keeping to their obligations or will try to take advantage of other people's willingness to tidy up their mess.

Similar thing for housemates sneakily "borrowing" other people's cutlery, food, toiletries and electrical equipment- without asking.
The stealing of other people's food is widespread and very annoying.
To the point that many people stick labels on their items in the fridge or quietly keep their own mini-fridge hidden in their locked rooms.
I did the latter during my undergrad years when I rented rooms in houseshares but still regularly had items from my grocery shopping mysteriously vanish.
A housemate stole my brand new toaster with egg cooking feature before I even had the opportunity to use it once.

Over the years there have been lots of posts on TSR with angry students fed up of the habitual pilfering of inconsiderate housemates asking for the best ways to spike their milk or food to teach the culprits a lesson by means of severe food poisoning (or something much worse).
Even more posts from students exasperated after months/years living with housemates that never clean the bathroom or kitchen, who are determined to never ever again pay for shared facilities- for the rest of eternity.

All housemates have to negotiate advance rotas agreeing schedules for bathroom and kitchen use.
Cleaning duty, putting the rubbish out and having guests come/stay over too.
Sadly a lot of people will be lazy about always keeping to their obligations or will try to take advantage of other people's willingness to tidy up their mess.

Similar thing for housemates sneakily "borrowing" other people's cutlery, food, toiletries and electrical equipment- without asking.
The stealing of other people's food is widespread and very annoying.
To the point that many people stick labels on their items in the fridge or quietly keep their own mini-fridge hidden in their locked rooms.
I did the latter during my undergrad years when I rented rooms in houseshares but still regularly had items from my grocery shopping mysteriously vanish.
A housemate stole my brand new toaster with egg cooking feature before I even had the opportunity to use it once.

Over the years there have been lots of posts on TSR with angry students fed up of the habitual pilfering of inconsiderate housemates asking for the best ways to spike their milk or food to teach the culprits a lesson by means of severe food poisoning (or something much worse).
Even more posts from students exasperated after months/years living with housemates that never clean the bathroom or kitchen, who are determined to never ever again pay for shared facilities- for the rest of eternity.