RANT: The Roommate, Part Deux

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
As some of you may recall, I had troubles with one of my roommates. The whole money issue was resolved by deciding to split the bills evenly. However, his spoiledness has not been solved.

As we go shopping for groceries again at Costco, "Dave" goes off to get food that he likes to add to the group shopping cart (i.e. Pringles and Speciality Pasta). Another roommate and I complain because neither of us wants to waste money on it. However, we end up giving in because of his complaining and his not carrying money with him. The problem is that he hasn't really learned the idea of sharing and group food and instead hoards it for himself. He has the delusional idea that because he picked it out, it should be HIS food and no one else's.

For example, the box of Pringles has 6 cans and there's 4 of us. Dave has already ate 2 cans by himself, yet he complains when I open a can because it's his Pringles.

Due to his spoiledness, he doesn't cook either so he ends up eating bread for lunch and dinner. We usually buy two loaves of bread to last us two weeks as lunch, but we end up running into the 2nd loaf half way into the first week because "Dave" keeps making sandwiches to eat while he WoWs because it is convenient.

Fvcking bastard.

/RANT

Cliffs:
1. Sharing is good.
2. Learning to cook ftw so you don't eat all the goddamn instant food.

there is no way to make "community food" work... ever, this is the fastest way to totally destroy a shared living situation.


I'm in a shared housing situation ,we started out doing community food, then we went to a system where we took turns ordering and paying for the food,then we went to separate food, with each of us taking turns buying bread/milk, we then went to a situation where I bought a 4.3 cubic ft fridge,it's stylish and keeps things like soda,milk,juice,fresh fruit, spendy gourmet snacks at my fingertips. We still store our meat and such in the community fridge but thus far this is the best possible solution

Wheever several unrelated people live together there are always going to be squabbles over food.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

 

[dug777]

I have no problems sharing food/bills with my gf

We just buy what we want, with a reasonable number of 'treat' items each, and split the bill...it's worked fine for the last year & a half...

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

Just make sure you scatter the teeth so they can't use dental records to ID him.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

That system works... till somebody in the group actually gets a life and misses a time or 2 or 3 of his turn to cook the community dinner.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: dug777
I have no problems sharing food/bills with my gf

We just buy what we want, with a reasonable number of 'treat' items each, and split the bill...it's worked fine for the last year & a half...

"Treat," Australian for sex toy.
/Aussie accent

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

You guys should setup a system for cooking for each other too.... Pick one night of the week where you all cook for each other, and the rest of the nights you eat whatever. Seems to work pretty well for my friends.

I think you guys should just buy whatever you want for yourselves, and find the overlapping things. Buy those together, split evenly, and then buy the rest on your own. If you're feeling nice, share some. You will share more and more and then there will be more common stuff. You buy the common stuff together, but you still buy your own stuff as well. Bottom line is instead of working from sharing everything and then trying to pick things out that are individual, do the opposite. Individual stuff first, then find what you have in common.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

Just make sure you scatter the teeth so they can't use dental records to ID him.

Contrary to popular belief, dental records are utterly ****** useless unless they have some idea who he was...and who his dentist was...it's not as if there's a national database...so bury him at least two states away...

 

[UncleWai]

Good ol' rat poison should teach him a lesson.

 

[dug777]

Also, are you midgets? How on earth can two loaves of bread do you for two weeks?

We go through two loaves a week between the two of us, easily...

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

You guys should setup a system for cooking for each other too.... Pick one night of the week where you all cook for each other, and the rest of the nights you eat whatever. Seems to work pretty well for my friends.

I think you guys should just buy whatever you want for yourselves, and find the overlapping things. Buy those together, split evenly, and then buy the rest on your own. If you're feeling nice, share some. You will share more and more and then there will be more common stuff. You buy the common stuff together, but you still buy your own stuff as well. Bottom line is instead of working from sharing everything and then trying to pick things out that are individual, do the opposite. Individual stuff first, then find what you have in common.

As Geekbabe mentioned, the whole cooking for everyone usually falls apart when someone isn't there to cook for everyone when it's their turn.

The whole group buying/cooking/eating thing CAN work, but 9 times out of 10 it fails completely.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

The thing is that we're all pretty good friends and share similar food tastes so it makes sense to buy cheaper in bulk.

I did the same thing, and it worked out great. We'd take turns making meals every night (We're both accomplished cooks) and shop together, etc.

Your problem is you have a cancer amongst you. The next time you go shopping together, pick up some carpet cleaner, an axe, a shovel, a hacksaw, some garbage bags and a bunch of paper towels. Don't tell Dave what you're getting them for.

Nice to hear that it does work out alright. That's pretty much what we've been doing, cooking for each other except for Dave who is just eating whatever we cook without contributing.

Just make sure you scatter the teeth so they can't use dental records to ID him.

Contrary to popular belief, dental records are utterly ****** useless unless they have some idea who he was...and who his dentist was...it's not as if there's a national database...so bury him at least two states away...

Yeah, but after all these threads, and this guy vanishes, the authorities might catch on.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: dug777
Also, are you midgets? How on earth can two loaves of bread do you for two weeks?

We go through two loaves a week between the two of us, easily...

Because you're carb scarfing fatties is all I can figure. Most people don't go through nearly that much bread.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: dug777
Also, are you midgets? How on earth can two loaves of bread do you for two weeks?

We go through two loaves a week between the two of us, easily...

Because you're carb scarfing fatties is all I can figure. Most people don't go through nearly that much bread.

Couple of pieces of toast for brekkie adds up pretty quickly. Throw in two sandwiches (four pieces of bread) for lunch, and you can easily see how we do it

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: dug777
Also, are you midgets? How on earth can two loaves of bread do you for two weeks?

We go through two loaves a week between the two of us, easily...

Because you're carb scarfing fatties is all I can figure. Most people don't go through nearly that much bread.

Couple of pieces of toast for brekkie adds up pretty quickly. Throw in two sandwiches (four pieces of bread) for lunch, and you can easily see how we do it

Yeah, I was right in my first assessment. 2 sandwiches for lunch. You're going to sink your island if you keep up at that rate.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: dug777
Also, are you midgets? How on earth can two loaves of bread do you for two weeks?

We go through two loaves a week between the two of us, easily...

Because you're carb scarfing fatties is all I can figure. Most people don't go through nearly that much bread.

Couple of pieces of toast for brekkie adds up pretty quickly. Throw in two sandwiches (four pieces of bread) for lunch, and you can easily see how we do it

Yeah, I was right in my first assessment. 2 sandwiches for lunch. You're going to sink your island if you keep up at that rate.

I'm still only 65kg, which is maybe 5kg below where i'd like to be at 5'10.5"

 

[Azraele]

Honestly it sounds like how WOW addiction is a big problem.

 

[eakers]

make him buy his own food.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: Playmaker

Originally posted by: Mike
You have 1 problem, and 1 problem only. This entire "group food" thing is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Is this the first time you've lived with roommates? Group food never works out and always pisses off everyone. You all should buy your own food, dice up the fridge & cabnet space.

/thread

QFT, as if this simple of an idea needs to be quoted. When I've lived with roommates no one has ever entertained a "group food" system. That's ridiculous.

Ya, it just doesnt work. No one is saying you all need to have your own bottle of ketchup, but group food is retarded. For some bigger things, but everyone needs to be down on it.

Your roommate is not completely in the wrong...why should he even have to entertain the fact that he has to pay for food he doesnt want? If you all buy stuff together, it doesnt necessarily mean that he has to eat 1/5th of everything...why can't he just eat "his share" without splitting each item exactly so?