Roomate keeps eating my damn food!

[NathanBWF]

So I usually spend about $60 on groceries. Over the last 3-4 months I've been living with him, he's probably eaten 60-70% of all the food I've ever bought. Couldn't even make a sandwich today cuz he ate all my sandwich meat and all my damn bread. How do you stop roomates from doing this in a polite fashion? He's kinda low on $$$ these days so I don't really want to be an @$$ but I can't afford to feed myself AND someone else.

NOTE:
Him = 6'4", 270lbs. and former Super Heavyweight amateur kickboxing champ of Canada :Q
Me = 5'10", 170lbs. with no previous fight/martial art training experience :frown:

So as you can see....me beating the crap out of him until he stops eating my food is not an option.

Any suggestions...?

 

[Fausto]

Bake brownies......add large amounts of laxatives to brownie mix.......problem solved.

 

[brunswickite]

did you tell him you dont like it when he eats all your food?

 

[Gunslinger08]

I would say the best thing is to.. *gasp*.. talk to him about it.

Let him know you can't afford it, and that it's really not cool. He should understand.

If he doesn't, poison him.

 

[mchammer187]

tell him to stop or just don't buy any food

 

[NFS4]

strychnine

 

[Encryptic]

Talk to him and ask him to knock it off. Explain you can't afford to feed yourself and him. If he keeps doing it, then:

- Get a mini-fridge for your room and put a lock on your door or the fridge itself.

- Find a new roommate who will respect your stuff

- Fausto's laxative suggestion has a certain evil ingenuity to it...

 

[jdogg]

i would go the laxative route

 

[UNCjigga]

fvck your roommate

no seriously, fvck him!!

<-- tired of roommate threads!! I mean its SUMMER for chrissakes...

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
fvck your roommate

no seriously, fvck him!!

<-- tired of roommate threads!!

Pics??




LOL, JUST KIDDING!!!!!

 

[kranky]

First you need to figure out if both of you are on the same wavelength about the food in the house. He might think all the food is community property.

Use your sandwich example as a way to open the conversation.

"I went to make a sandwich today and all of the sandwich meat and bread that I bought were gone. How about if from now on we just eat the food that we each buy ourselves? It's frustrating when I don't know whether there will be anything for me to eat for lunch, and it makes it hard for me to budget money for food."

That's not being an ass. It doesn't insult his intelligence, doesn't bring up his lack of money, or slams him for eating your food before.

 

[guyver01]

i third the laxative idea..

if you're really mean...substitute baking soda for sugar

 

Padlock your fridge.

 

[NathanBWF]

After careful deliberation...I've decided to go with the laxative route. Either that or i'm just going to start eating out all the time and stop buying groceries until he's starves to death. By doing this I get to avoid the uncomfortable event of confrontation. ATOT...you've done it again!

p.s. He's a good buddy so i don't just want to move out and find another roomate either....and i don't want him to beat the living hell out of me either.

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
After careful deliberation...I've decided to go with the laxative route. Either that or i'm just going to start eating out all the time and stop buying groceries until he's starves to death. By doing this I get to avoid the uncomfortable event of confrontation. ATOT...you've done it again!

p.s. He's a good buddy so i don't just want to move out and find another roomate either....and i don't want him to beat the living hell out of me either.

why dont you TALK to him? he is not gonna hurt you if you talk to him in a civil, non-offending way.

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
After careful deliberation...I've decided to go with the laxative route. Either that or i'm just going to start eating out all the time and stop buying groceries until he's starves to death. By doing this I get to avoid the uncomfortable event of confrontation. ATOT...you've done it again!

p.s. He's a good buddy so i don't just want to move out and find another roomate either....and i don't want him to beat the living hell out of me either.

why dont you TALK to him? he is not gonna hurt you if you talk to him in a civil, non-offending way.

i guess i should have mentioned before that because he hasn't been working much in the last little while that he's decided to fill that gap with large quantities of alcohol. he's been getting really angry easily lately...especially since he got stabbed in the head with a screwdriver a little while back....so i don't really want to confront him and piss him off even more.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: kranky
First you need to figure out if both of you are on the same wavelength about the food in the house. He might think all the food is community property.

Use your sandwich example as a way to open the conversation.

"I went to make a sandwich today and all of the sandwich meat and bread that I bought were gone. How about if from now on we just eat the food that we each buy ourselves? It's frustrating when I don't know whether there will be anything for me to eat for lunch, and it makes it hard for me to budget money for food."

That's not being an ass. It doesn't insult his intelligence, doesn't bring up his lack of money, or slams him for eating your food before.

Sounds like a reasonable answer

 

[rust5tyle]

I used to have the same problem with my roommate, we just had to talk about it. We decided that it was better we just get our own food and split up the cabinets so that it would stay seperate. We did share milk and such though. (Wait, that sounds kinda' sick..)

 

[Aquaman]

lick all of your food in his presense

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
lick all of your food in his presense

Cheers,
Aquaman

Or splooge in the milk carton...

 

[BarbeQueGuy]

Check with someone that knows law, but I think that the laxative thing is considered a criminal act.

 

[Flatline]

and did you say "stabbed in the head with a screwdriver"? cripes

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: BarbeQueGuy
Check with someone that knows law, but I think that the laxative thing is considered a criminal act.

Hmmm....yeah i don't really want to go to jail over this....especially since that's where he works! lol....ah the irony...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: BarbeQueGuy
Check with someone that knows law, but I think that the laxative thing is considered a criminal act.

It might be illegal to do that for stuff you're donating to a bake sale, but it's not illegal to put laxatives in your own food.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
After careful deliberation...I've decided to go with the laxative route. Either that or i'm just going to start eating out all the time and stop buying groceries until he's starves to death. By doing this I get to avoid the uncomfortable event of confrontation. ATOT...you've done it again!

p.s. He's a good buddy so i don't just want to move out and find another roomate either....and i don't want him to beat the living hell out of me either.

why dont you TALK to him? he is not gonna hurt you if you talk to him in a civil, non-offending way.

i guess i should have mentioned before that because he hasn't been working much in the last little while that he's decided to fill that gap with large quantities of alcohol. he's been getting really angry easily lately...especially since he got stabbed in the head with a screwdriver a little while back....so i don't really want to confront him and piss him off even more.

*sniff*
*sniff*

What's that smell?

Oh, that's just your HUMONGOUS VAGINA. If you can't talk to your roommate, who you say is a FRIEND, about something as banal as food usage, you are not only a major wuss but you need to learn to develop simple communications skills.