Mal Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 I have a roommate who leave out quite a lot of perishable stuff. Since I rarely have people over, I don't care as long its not something I use too. His other personal stuff like butter, hot pockets and such... he is on his own on putting it back in the fridge. I will however toss something out, like the butter, if it has been sitting there for days. I don't want mold and pests around. I say if it is not effecting you in terms of money or social life/whatever then just ignore it however since it involves the fridge space... go for it. Five people to a fridge is nuts and it should have some order in that chaos. I'm personally with two other guys, so so far there have been little problem with fridge space so we haven't delegated any space for who besides cabinet space. The fridge space just goes however but it generally have sections where each of our stuff are in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Fridge space has always been a kind of "unwritten law" with all of my roommates. Sorta like how people pick out their seats for the rest of the semester if there isn't a seating chart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I wish my roommates will deposit the checks I gave them. One has my rent, since he's the landlord son. The other has the internet/cable stuff. I hate when people hold onto checks. It can really screw with accounting and it be damn odd to ask them to take my money so here I am... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS SHIT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It managed to blow my mom's account for the time when she paid my internet portion when she was in town. Another thing I see as odd is that it seems that some of the checks I gave to my roommate hasn't been deposited. Hell, I think some of them even expired. I just might ask to deposit the stuff myself. A little extra effort on my part but I know when these money will go out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 28, 2012 Report Share Posted September 28, 2012 I woke up to 17 missed calls this morning, 16 of them from my housemate. She'd gone off to her bf's to the night. Other housemate then locked the door...and put the chain on the latch. (apparently has been doing this every night since she moved in). Housemate 1 then arrives back at 7 in the morning and finds she can't get in All in all was locked out for 2 hours until housemate 2's alarm went off (cos she was told to expect HM 1 to be back at 10am) I think I might have to get Tasker so my phone sound can be turned on at a reasonable time in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted October 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) I don't have much to say as these guys are not that bad, but there are some things that just confuse me. I've already talked about the acne cream in the refrigerator, and my beef being that it better not spill or I'll be pissed, but otherwise "R" is alright. Roommate "G" can be a dick. He's responsible and probably the more "adult" of us all, but when he wants something his way, it's so awkward and frustrating. He also keeps calling me by my legal name when I always go with my nickname. I've reminded him, but I think it's his way of being serious and crap. He doesn't give me trouble at least. Then roommate "J," the one that has all different conditions and medical mysteries. I treat him well and everything, but as a human being he still can do annoying things. He's a smart guy, but logic doesn't seem to come into focus right away. Like, as I said in my status update, him needing sleep. If you wake up in the night, you're sure to find him kneeling onto the couch sleeping. Literally face shoved into the cushions with his body almost doing this yoga stance. He'll wake up if you get near and act like you're expecting something from him and so he's getting back to work. I don't know why he doesn't just go to his bed... though I assume it's because his whole room is filled with junk. Not trash, but everything is laying out to where you can barely see the floor. It's probably why he does all his work, school and etc, out in the kitchen area. That's annoying in that, you know, the kitchen is where all of us make/eat food, so tons of papers and books filling up space seems out of place and a hindrance. He's still nice and if there was only one thing I ever got angry about involving him was when he set his alarm to blazing loud so he could hear it from the common area... at 2:00 AM. Edited October 5, 2012 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Not a roommate issue. But one of locale. See we have two newsagents at the top of the road. But me n Erin only use one and Melissa thinks we're crazy. We use Today's News. Bus is in the way but if you head left/west along the road you'll see the one we don't go to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Heat Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 I do my damnedest to be a good roommate. The most noise you'll hear me make is me either watching a movie or playing or a game a little too loudly due to 'hey let's make all our dialogue quiet' syndrome. I will admit I'm kind of a slob when it comes to my own room (clothes on the floor, basically), but dammit, it's my personal space, I can do what I want with it! I do have a story to share though. Turn the clock back to the year 2007. One of my friends, Ian (who was a trust fund baby), had acquired a house, paying for half of it straight up ($25,000) and inviting some of our mutual friends to move in. This is all fine and dandy, but everyone is suspicious of giving Ian rent as he is known to not be very good with money or responsible. Everything is alright for the most part, mostly some incidents with Ian's younger brother constantly manhandling everyone's stuff or his younger sister being nerve grating like every teenage girl, coupled with her known drug and drinking habits. Eventually, he started bringing over high schoolers he was friends with, procuring both drugs and alcohol for them. This continues for a couple weeks, leading to them damaging my best friend's little brother's monitor (who was there because we were doing some LAN gaming), ruining dishes by trying to cook hamburger patties on a cookie sheet on the stove, wasting our food by similar drunken/doped up idiocy and generally just being annoying as fuck. Turns out that Ian was spending the money on this rather than PAYING HIS MORTGAGE, which we didn't find out until the sheriff came by to give us a foreclosure notice while Ian was off faffing about. All of it just further cemented by hatred of teenagers and people who do drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 There's people who do drugs, and there's people who let drugs do them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 (edited) Cementing his place as the "Dick" roommate, he declined to pay $20 so we could have cleaners come and automatically pass our first cleaning check. No, even when my other roommate offered to pay his part, he didn't OK the cleaners and so, on the night before, I find this out and have a relatively small panic attack. Now that everything is in order, I'm fine and cleaning, but seriously... #1 Dick roommate I've had. I should have known something like this would happen when he wouldn't even share toilet paper. No, unlike all of my previous roommates, he hides his away so I don't use his precious paper on my poophole! EDIT: And if for some reason we do fail the cleaning check, we are going to be paying out the butt for cleaners on an hourly basis. Edited November 29, 2012 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted January 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I've been trying to sell my contract, and very soon I'll be able to move. It's a blessing just to be able to get away from this new roommate of mine. I want to be able to tolerate the last few days I'll still be living here, but DA CRAP he's trying my patience. If he plans on staying up till 5 AM listening to pretentious underground electronic music while doing laundry, Imma lose my mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Does anyone have any tips to help my roommate wash dishes instead of just running some water over them and scrubbing stuff off with a sponge? It's a huge waste of water and soap to do it the way he does and things don't get clean (and probably not santiized) half the time. I've tried pointing out the proper way to do it but he was rather defensive about it for some reason. We've lived together for over a year so we don't complain about much stuff to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Maybe suggest for him to wash them with relatively hot water. Worst comes to worst you could find the middle ground as I did with my ex roommate (my older sis) and just use the washing machine if you have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 He's eating off the dirty dishes as well. So just do a straight up comparison with his dishes and good clean ones and show him just what the hell he is putting in his (and yours) body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pirate Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 At least he's doing something to them.... I've had roommates in the past who would just dump their dishes in the sink, still full of food, where it would fester. Not to mention the potatoes that managed to breed itself into three generations on the top of the fridge. My suggestion would be to just wash your own dishes for a while and leave his alone for him to do. And if he confronts you about THAT, then maybe consider the pros and cons of that person being your roommate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I was away for the weekend and my brother (also my roommate) sent me a message saying how he'll "wash the dishes when he's back tomorrow". "Tomorrow" was 4 days ago and he still hasn't come back from his trip to his girlfriend's town. Like, seriously, when I came back home, the whole place looked like he had decided to leave the house for a few days and just walked out the door right that instant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Take the dishes off the rack and put them back in the pile again.If you've approached him about it then he'll be aware of what's going on and will likely eventually change his ways. My current housemates have a habit of leaving things in the wink with water, which just evenly coats everything in grime even if some stuff was just like a plate for toast or something. For the most part we just wash our own stuff but they both know I want wash up at all if the sink is full of dishes and water. Only put stuff in the bowl if you intend to wash it up there and then. There's nothing we have that requires soaking that can't just be filled with water and left on the side for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Get paper plates, plastic forks, and plastic party cups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 but not red or he will invite his bros and have a beer pong tournament. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 At least he's doing something to them.... I've had roommates in the past who would just dump their dishes in the sink, still full of food, where it would fester. Not to mention the potatoes that managed to breed itself into three generations on the top of the fridge. My suggestion would be to just wash your own dishes for a while and leave his alone for him to do. And if he confronts you about THAT, then maybe consider the pros and cons of that person being your roommate. This is what we already do. We don't have our own dishes so inevitably I'm keeping up on my dishes and he's not which means I'm running out of dishes. And it's especially a hassle when it comes to pots and pans and shit there isn't a lot of. What makes the problem is that he isn't the one cooking, it's his girlfriend, and she rarely ever thinks to clean her dishes because she doesn't live here though she's here an awful lot. Which isn't a problem unless she cooks, which is what she's been doing more of lately. I'm the one who doesn't have the money or even much of an option to eat out much, either. He's the one who can do that, and used to do that, before his GF started cooking more often. So it wasn't a big issue until now. @Dean that last part isn't a bad idea. And I always put anything dirty enough back in his pile. I don't think he notices . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 I think my roommate is high enough that he mistook my room for his. Heheh. Or at least is what I think and hope that is what just happened. I never been high before, just drunk, so I wouldn't know how it affects a person first hand. In my drunken state, I just need to concentrate really damn hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 I've been high off of my fucking mind and trust me it is not a nice feeling. Similarly to being so drunk you can't stand straight, being so high usually involves being lazy as hell and passing out easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 One of my housemates is leaving at some point to be replaced my Nick, the other housemates past not-quite-boyfriend. He was going to be joining us when we looked at a four bed but opted to stay with his parents. I did warn him living with parents post-uni is not a good idea. It at least solves the question that had been creeping up of "what happens when student housemate finishes uni". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted January 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 I didn't know exactly where I could put this, but considering it has to deal with where I live... Yeah, take a seat and hear a tale of frustration, crime, sadness, boobs, and cookies. You may be aware of how I was going to be moving out of my apartment this weekend and finally move back home to work a job and eventually set foot into a career later. That was the plan, and it was going smoothly until 5:30 pm today. I received a phone call from the individual who has been planning on moving into my room, thus taking over my contract. What he told me next put in such frustration that I was set to go on a rampage. Well, a little background first. The guy who wants to buy my contract already lives in the apartment. He wants to get out of his room because his roommates are Grade A Assholes. The stuff he tells me is far beyond what I've experienced. So, he wants to move down to my place where the roommates are more weird than dickheaded. This mystery buyer (because I never met him) seemed alright to... I'll call him "P-Diddy, and everything was set in motion for this weekend. Oh, except this guy turns out to be a SEX OFFENDER! Or perhaps one of those regular ol' criminals, but all I heard (that was accidentally slipped) was in was something with the law. Anyway, here I sit with all my possessions packed in boxes. Boxes that surround me and now must be prematurely emptied like a fat kid's colon that suffers from IBS and poorly crafted cafeteria burritos. Now, not to mention P-Diddy has to come downstairs and grab all his belongings and bring them back to his place. I can only imagine the response from his roommates. My folks also came down to help me move back home. Yeah, they had just arrived to town when I heard this news. Two tanks of gas wasted for them to come and go back home with no son. At least we had dinner and I got to see my freakin' awesome dog. Didn't help that my mother was tearing up and my dog could tell all was not right. It could be worse, and you have to look at the silver lining. At least I still has some place to live, albeit an expensive one. There was a topless gal in one of the hotel rooms I walked pass with their door ajar. Yeah, I guess they assumed no one could be walking in a hotel hallway... but I also got this amazing cookie from the hotel staff! I'm still stuck with the same crap Internet, so sorry Advent and Six... I can't play Anarchy Reigns with you guys without a better connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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