Tips for living with parents for a short time!

[gingerbead]

For house moving related reasons my parents are moving in with my Fiancee and I for about 2 months after Christmas until their new house is ready (new build). We are happy to do this for them and offered, they did not ask. They did look at short term lets but shortest time is 6 months and would hate to see them waste all that money. We have enough room and all get on well and parents have already said they will contribute financially for day to day expenses etc.

However as lovely as my parents are living with them will come with its challenges (as I'm sure they think about living with us!); has anyone got any tips on how to not kill each other!?

Do you have children?

Do you have a spare living room?

How many bathrooms do you have?

Who, out of the four of you, will be going out to work?

No children. 2 living rooms, we all work although mum 3 days a week. Just one bathroom though!

Right, well why don't you allocate a living room each? Then could two of you shower at night and two in the morning?

What will you do about food?

Sit down and thrash out some ground rules from the start.
Things like using the bathroom in the morning
Are you going to be having meals together - sorting out who shops (and budget); who cooks; who clears up (and what clearing up means]
If you are going to cook separately then how will you sort that out.
Think about cleaning and laundry
Visitors - if either couple has visitors is there somewhere for the other couple to go