For those with roommates

[Saint Nick]

Here's a quick story...

My girlfriend's room mate, Tracy, cooks a ton of food at the beginning of each week, leaving multitudes of dirty dishes. These dirty dishes stay in or around the sink area for WEEKS. My girlfriend gave her a chance to clean the dishes MANY TIMES, always reminding her. Finally, I got tired of her room mates destroying her house so I threw all of the fucking dishes in a paper bag and put them out on the porch. Sadly, they are still there. That is how lazy she is.

My girlfriend and I spent the better part of November painting the walls and scrubbing the floors in her house to make it a nicer place to live. And, of course, here is Tracy again, wanting to throw a 21st birthday party. So, she sets up that usual stuff... the beer pong table, jello shots, and the like. The party doesn't start until 12:00am. A boatload of really, really shady people show up to the house and completely make a mess of the place. No holes in the walls or anything... but beer and booze is all over the floors, the kitchen (which took us about four or five hours to clean) is destroyed. There is jello and beer everywhere. Tracy is shitfaced and couldn't give a damn that my girlfriend is chewing her ass out and kicking all Tracy's deadbeat friends out of the house at 3:30am. So, Tracy goes and pukes all over her own bathroom (not my girlfriend's bathroom). The next morning my girlfriend tells her to clean up her fucking mess. Tracy half-way cleaned the kitchen and left the beer pong table in there. The floor was like a huge sheet of flypaper -- you would walk in there and your shoes would literally stick so much that when you pull up your leg, you pulled your foot out of your shoe. And, Tracy's bathroom was just one huge fucking biological hazard. Sure, she cleaned it up about halfway (we don't even think of entering there anymore). There was vomit and urine everywhere, toilet paper everywhere, and was impossible to walk in there without gagging.

Well, long story short, we now throw all of Tracy's shit in a box in the kitchen whenever its dirty. My girlfriend didn't want to let her have the party in the first place, but we had one the day before (it was a very elegant party) and didn't want to be hypocritical, and I suppose Tracy was never given a chance before. So she gave her the chance and she blew it.

I think the bag of pans and silverware are still out on the patio. My girlfriend needs a replacement room mate before she can kick Tracy's ass out of there, otherwise she would have been gone months ago.

 

[SupaDupaPan]

I lived with 3 guys. I either had to do the cleaning, or hired a maid every so often. Of course, I paid for the maid.

 

[queenrobot]

I live with two guys. My roommate will occasionally wash dishes, but won't put them up because he "doesn't know where things go". My husband will rarely do chores, even the simplest thing like putting up the laundry he washed. I do pretty much everything. But hey, isn't that what being a woman is all about?

My point: live by yourself in the tiniest place imaginable.

 

[lokiju]

I lived with a guy before that was basically a girl.

He was a huge slob and would always leave dirty plates and pots and pans in the sink for days on end until they'd start to grow stuff.

A few times I cleaned up after his mess after I was done making my own mess in the kitchen but I only did that maybe 2 times and said f that.

I started to actually all his dirty shit out of the sink and stack it all up on the counter next to the sink still dirty so that I could at least fit something into the sink and clean my own mess, after the stack would get out of control enough he'd eventually get around to cleaning up his shit.

After that roommate I got my own 1 bedroom apartment.

Before that roommate I lived with a couple that shared a room and the GF was pretty good at cleaning and so was the guy so it was never an issue, we all did a good job of cleaning.

 

[bonkers325]

lopsided, but everyone was good about cleaning up after themselves so the house was never really too dirty. after that i moved into a new apt with a previous roommate and we just rotated chores.

 

[sygyzy]

This is a tough one. I've had roommates who don't clean or at least are not as clean as *my* standards. The problem with cleanliness is that everyone has a different standard and if yours are stricter (likely), then you come off as a clean-freak or a jerk. I try to tell my roommates to not put me in a position where I am made out to be a jerk.

One thing I learned is that some people are just not wired like normal people. For example, used glass of OJ sitting on the coffee table for days is an eyesore for and bothers me. Other people don't even blink. So when you tell them to put their glass away, they think it's ridiculous.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

One of my roommates would not ever clean the pots & pans he dirtied, plates and such he'd put in the dishwasher but never touch the pots & pans. So one day I got sick of it and started leaving them upside down on his bed. After doing that two or three times, I don't think I've dealt with one of his pans since.