 | NUSET Berkeley Series Privacy Knob Lock (Brass)
Buy new: $12.99 Change your bedroom lock; keep extra key in safe hiding place.
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 | 2-Drawer Vertical File with Lock, 15"x25"x28-3/8", Black (LLR60653) Category: Vertical File Cabinets
Buy new: $118.55 Put bills and personal papers here & use as a bed table,etc. Reading past roommates' mail/checkbook was how she could babble others income range/debts. She noted this as she wondered how an ex-roomie would pay for a wedding since she saw the checkbook. I asked if it was on dining table and she replied "No," she went into the bedroom to find. Very disturbing that she didn't see how wrong it was.
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Add extra safety measure for your computer log-on.
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 | Dolce Dark Walnut Folding Bookcase
Buy new: $79.99 Make this your bedroom shelf of personal items. Else you'll find roomie buying same types trinkets/books/music (despite contrary past statements & she's never openly/honestly exhibited interest). Even more creepy sign of poser behavior: noticing esoteric purchases that mimics your tastes was never read or listened to as it sat on the kitchen table for @ least 3 months gathering dust.
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 | Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing with Difficult People by Mark Rosen
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Get a book like this for wyas to help cope mentally and spiritually (if you're into that) when you realize too late what happened and your repeated attempts to discuss differences and issues don't work, as they still continue behaviors.
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 | Whitney Design ML-6017 Woven-Seagrass Magazine Rack with Handle
Buy new: $23.31 Get basket for ea.person;don't put mail in retrieve pile. I don't mind catalogs/To Resident mail, but a couple of times she took MY mail. After I saw and asked why she had in her stuff, she said she liked the topic from the sender and "mistakenly" thought it was for her" HUH?!(EX.newsletter from my membership-dues club & invitations). Who knows what other mail she read if she tried?
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 | Tide HE 2x Concentrated Liquid Detergent, Original Scent, 64-Load Bottle (Pack of 4)
Buy new: $77.64 She borrowed linens for guests then never washed them. I was skeeved after she showed her bedbug bites in winter b/c from not washing hers for >8 mos.) She continued to use my unwashed linens for her other guests so I just let her have it & got another set to wash regularly for my guests. Lesson:Don't lend such things if you notice their poor hygiene & manners.
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 | Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties by Charles Tilly
Buy new: $23.70 / Used from: $20.00 Awkward social boundary sign: Personal questions about your friend(s) or to your friend's face: "Do you want kids" or "did you really love your ex" out of the blue--so inappropriate when you really don't know them. ALSO, ANNOYED ME WHEN I TURNED STEREO DOWN & OVERHEARD HER repeatedly "insist" to a mutual friend 'Don't come up. Stay there. I'll meet you at the corner. No one's here...'
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 | Bushnell Powerview 12x25 Compact Folding Roof Prism Binocular (Black)
Buy new: $16.36 Another trait of roommate being snoopy & stalking: looking out the window to track male neighbors' movements because a psychic said he may be "The One." Turns out there were several "The Ones" & I didn't care to listen her aloud speculation on their comings and goings, nor hear her googled discoveries on them.
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 | Modern High-Security Locks: How To Open Them by Steven Hampton
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $12.14 Privacy & security are key, especially when a vagrant settled in the hall. BUT INSTEAD OF CALLING COPS, the attention-seeker wanted "the guy" downstairs. We needed a badge(despite gender) than a certain guy neighbor for selfish, adolescent reasons. She was unbelievably mad that I called cops. Nevermind another male neighbor next door was glad for the cops b/c stranger may have had weapon.
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 | The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions by James Claiborn
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $12.95 Even if not a roomie, in the end one can't be friends with someone with arrested adolescent behavior:constant prattle of others' bodies and looks (s/he's gained/lost weight, etc.) Not only of friends, but people she didn't know (but by name) such as neighbors. Its one thing to pointout a person's dress, but when female older than 17 degrades others on physical traits, its a problem.
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 | The Second-Hand Parrot by Mattie Sue Athan
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.46 Clue: When they express likes/opinions then frequently change it in front of others and "parrot" their views for attention. Its a sign your "friend" is somewhat superficial and to a degree you can't trust them. Time to slowly break it off.
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