To create:

[azurelunatic]

...a survey involving things that people might want to know if they were going to live with you, like what-all crap you keep in the shower, which way you tend to leave the toilet seat when left to your own devices, ect. (And the toilet seat is a trinary operator, not a binary operator.)

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[juuro.livejournal.com]

Most of the time I leave the seat down as I leave.

If I'm visiting a place where it is seen fit to exhort the leaving the seat down, I will put the lid down, too.

[azurelunatic]

Heh. Which can be interesting, if you're one of the people who gets up multiple times in the night and tries to avoid waking up the brain with light at odd hours of the night.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I leave the lid down because of paranoia that my cats will fall in. Besides, Spot is inordinately fond of perching on the toilet seat and waiting for me to leave the shower.

[azurelunatic]

I leave the seat up because my cat likes drinking from it. Silly kitling, but as sometimes she drops food and stuff in the actual water dish, I want her to have something relatively fresh that she gets to drink from.

I would not put it past her to learn how to flush to get a fresh batch of water.

[greyowl.livejournal.com]

Suggestion: for many such things, some measure of how much you care about them would be useful. (For example, there is a relevant difference for potential roommates between someone with strong feelings on the position of the trinary operator and someone who leaves it one way by default when living alone, but will adjust habits if roommates care.)

[azurelunatic]

Very useful indeed. And also level of evangelism of household habits.

I tend to be somewhat obnoxious about the state my personal, unshared bathroom is left in when there are frequent other users who are not technically belonging to my bathroom but are using it nonetheless (for example, babysitter, child who typically uses the other bathroom). However, if there's someone else using my bathroom, I live and let live; if there's a guest using my bathroom, I live and let live.

[azurelunatic]

...where, of course, I mean by the "others using my bathroom -- live and let live" I mean "others sharing my bathroom on a regular basis, such as roommates who are assigned the same bathroom."

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Toilet seats have four states, yes? Seat up, seat down, lid down, and leave-as-is.

Another good shower thing is how long of showers people generally take, and when.

[azurelunatic]

Toilet seat operations have four states, but the seats themselves have only three.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Good point.