You may question about what you need to take to a shared house before moving in.
A shared house is mostly furnished in contrast to a single apartment. However, you have no idea what is equipped already and what you should take to. So I introduce you something you need at least when you move in and something convenient if you have.
Contents
what you need at least
Bedding
Depending on the shared house, bedding is prepared beforehand by tacking on a fee for bedding to initial costs or you are required to take bedding when moving in.
If you live in a shared house for the first time, you need to get bedding from either one of two ways above at any rate.
I don’t recommend you become hands-off about choosing your bedding by relying on a shared house staff. Your private room is only the space to be guaranteed your privacy.
How can you build up your stress at where you can make yourself at home personally.
Looking for bedding which is good enough for you to pursue peace at night is very important task you should tackle with. Find your best bedding at department store. This is your first job to do prior to staying in a share house.
Towel
Some shared houses provide paid rental towel and free rental towel for residents. Even if you move in such a shared house, you should buy a towel yourself. It is not very expensive and frequency in use is very high in everyday life. Do you want to use the one that someone used? Do not squeeze a penny for articles for daily use.
Your Clothes
When you come to Japan, all your clothes are as much as the amount to put in suitcase. Even so, cabinet equipped in a private room may not have a space to store all your stuff to bring with perfectly at the time you move in and you end up putting your clothes in the corner of a room, which don’t fit in the cabinet.
- Capacity of a cabinet equipped in a private room is limited
- Width of a room is limited
Thinking about the above two factors, if you buy some new clothes, some of your clothes in a cabinet may need to be disposed to make a space. You can find a room with a relatively big cabinet when doing room inspection but even so, if you put all the clothes for all seasons in a cabinet, its space will be full sooner or later.
Not too much clothes can be taken into a private room of a shared house.
Coat hungers
Storing your clothes without coat hungers in a cabinet are very inconvenient.
This is what you need at least to make more space to put your stull in and keep your cabinet clean.
Tooth paste
I really hesitate to write this thing because it is too natural to let you know. Basically consumables which you need to use for your diary life need to be prepared by yourself.
Or do you really want to share tooth paste with your room mates?
Roll-It-Clean with long handle
There are mostly shared vacuum cleaners in a shared house. But its big noise may interrupt your room mates’ sleeping at night so you can’t use it at late night. If you may be busy from the daytime to late night and have no chances to take days off, This is really convenient tool to clean up your room at anytime you want quietly
Hairdryer
If you a woman, Hairdryer is necessity for your busy morning. Every residents’ busy time zone in the morning overlaps in many cases. As is often the case with women, they make a long queue to use a hairdryer in spite of busy morning.
If you don’t want to be made fool of by waiting to use a shared hairdryer, you should buy yours. Save your time in the morning.
Shampoo and rinse
If you have strong preference to a specific brand’s shampoo or rinse, you should buy yours and if you want to save your money, you should use shared shampoo and rise.
This is all about your priority. By the way, shared shampoo and rinse are bought by a community service chages which you pay per month.
Alarm clock
If you want to want up in the morning without anyone’s help, you should prepare your alarm clock. But your room mates’ footstep in the morning from a living room will wake you up. This is probably natural alarm service.
If you live more effectively…
Nowadays, a shared house is well furnished enough to live in with only clothes and teeth brush without exaggeration. Almost every necessary diary goods is prepared already, which is covered by common service charges.
However, a number of those shared things is limited and is used with willingness to make compromises each other.
If you do care about time productivity and spend your life time more effectively, you should prepare your things which are in need of your shared house life as much as possible yourself.