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Under One Roof: Sister, Brother, Spouses, and Children Living Together

Author Annamarie Pluhar, Posted on November 25, 2010

Could you live with your sister or brother now that you are grown up? Here’s a family where the adults are brother and sister, each with a spouse and one child. Four adults, two children under one roof. Alexis describes how they do it in a guest post called, Co-housing:: Save Money, Share Resources, Have Fun! on the Money Saving Mom website.

She has a great list of benefits of living together under one roof: financial and emotional. The kids have someone to play with and the adults get to share the maintenance work of life.  I love hearing about adult siblings enjoying one another and living together.

The article certainly sparked many reader comments about living under one roof. There are 91 of them ranging from “what a great idea” and “I did this too” to “there’s no way I could do this.” On balance, more are chiming in that they think it’s a great idea.  The comments are illuminating. I think more people would try living together under one roof if they had a roadmap for how to go it.

What do you think?

Check out this article about living with your adult family: When Your Children Are Your Housemates: Return of the Boomerang Kids, Families Sharing a Home; Rob’s Story.

Filed Under: Stories of Sharing Tagged With: families

About Annamarie Pluhar

Annamarie advocates for people to share housing for the benefits of cost, company, help and sustainability. Author of Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates, and founder of Sharing Housing She lives in Vermont with one two-legged and two four-legged home-mates.

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